On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 04:43:55PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > On 03/14/2012 04:10 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote: > >there are plenty of on gpl lz based libraries out there (for example: > >http://www.fastlz.org/) and always have been. they are all much > >faster than zlib. the main issue is patents...you have to be careful > >even though all the lz77/78 patents seem to have expired or apply to > >specifics not relevant to general use. > > > > We're not going to include GPL code in the backend. We have enough > trouble with readline and that's only for psql. SO the fact that > there are GPL libraries can't help us, whether there are patent > issues or not. > > cheers > > andrew >
That is what makes Google's Snappy so appealing, a BSD license. Regards, Ken -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
