Scott Carey <sc...@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

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