daveg wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 10:23:17PM -0500, Andrew Chernow wrote:
>
>> Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>> The LZMA SDK is granted to the public domain:
>>> http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html
>>>
>>>
>> I played with this but found the SDK extremely confusing and flat out
>> horrible. One personal dislike was the unnecessary use of C++; although it
>> was the horrible API that turned me off. I'm not even sure if I ever got a
>> test program working.
>>
>> LZO (http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/) is a great algorithm, easy
>> API with many variants; my fav is LZO1X-1(15). Its known for its
>> compresison and decompresison speeds ... its blazing fast. zlib typically
>> gets 5-8% more compression.
>>
>
> LZO rocks. I wonder if the lzo developer would consider a license exception
> so that postgresql could use it? What would we need?
>
>
>
Probably a BSD license or a clean room implementation which we could BSD
license.
cheers
andrew