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

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 <lar(at)quicklz(dot)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.

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