Stephen R. van den Berg wrote: > > I asked the author of the QuickLZ algorithm about licensing... > Sounds like he is willing to cooperate. This is what I got from him: > > On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 17:56, Lasse Reinhold <l...@quicklz.com> wrote: >> Hi Stephen, >> >> That sounds really exciting, I'd love to see QuickLZ included into >> PostgreSQL. I'd be glad to offer support and add custom optimizations, >> features or hacks or whatever should turn up. >> >> My only concern is to avoid undermining the commercial license, but this >> can, as you suggest, be solved by exceptionally allowing QuickLZ to be >> linked with PostgreSQL. Since I have exclusive copyright of QuickLZ any >> construction is possible. >
Another solution could be to make PostgreSQL prepared for using compression with QuickLZ, letting the end user download QuickLZ separately and enable it with a compiler flag during compilation. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/QuickLZ-compression-algorithm-%28Re%3A-Inclusion-in-the-PostgreSQL-backend-for-toasting-rows%29-tp21284024p21307987.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - hackers mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
