On Friday, 30 January 2015 at 20:44:52 UTC, FG wrote:
and we should be quite happy. And, if someone was willing to implement DEFLATE, even using zlib wouldn't be required any more (which some don't like, as mentioned below). :)
Haven't used it, but public domain deflate: https://code.google.com/p/miniz/Just search for "public domain compression" and you'll find starting points:
https://www.google.no/?q=public%20domain%20compression