Re: QuickLZ compression algorithm (Re: Inclusion in the PostgreSQL backend for toasting rows)

A.M. wrote:
>On Jan 5, 2009, at 1:16 PM, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
>>Upon reading the DFSG, it seems you have a point...
>>However...
>>QuickLZ is dual licensed:
>>a. Royalty-free-perpetuous-use as part of the PostgreSQL backend or
>>  any derived works of PostgreSQL which link in *at least* 50% of the
>>  original PostgreSQL codebase.

>How does one even define "50% of the original PostgreSQL codebase"?  
>What nonsense.

It's a suggested (but by no means definitive) technical translation of
the legalese term "substantial".  Substitute with something better, by all
means.
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Sincerely,          Stephen R. van den Berg.

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