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bachegool

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Sep 30, 2011, 3:18:25 AM9/30/11
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Hello,

Is there any commercial data compression library that is comparable to
gzip?

thanks,
Ehsan

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Sep 30, 2011, 7:26:50 AM9/30/11
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bachegool wrote:

> Is there any commercial data compression library that is
> comparable to gzip?

Some GPLed libraries (e.g. LZO) are available under a special
license for those who cannot use GPLed code.

http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/

Regards.

John Reiser

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Sep 30, 2011, 10:18:30 AM9/30/11
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> Is there any commercial data compression library that is comparable to
> gzip?

zlib can be used to produce identical compression payload of gzip,
and alib not encumbered by GPL: http://zlib.net/zlib_license.html

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Mark Adler

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Oct 4, 2011, 10:24:17 PM10/4/11
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On 2011-09-30 00:18:25 -0700, bachegool said:
> Is there any commercial data compression library that is comparable to gzip?

gzip is not a data compression library.

zlib (http://zlib.net) is a data compression library. zlib can
compress and decompress the gzip format. zlib can be used in
commercial applications. (It has its own very permissive license that
is not GPL.)

Mark

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