Scott Carey <scott@richrelevance.com> writes:
> There are a handful of other compression algorithms very similar to LZO in
> performance / compression level under various licenses.
> LZO is just the best known and most widely used.
And after we get done with the license question, we need to ask about
patents. The compression area is just a minefield of patents. gzip is
known to avoid all older patents (and would be pretty solid prior art
against newer ones). I'm far less confident about lesser-known systems.
regards, tom lane