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Andys
on March 22, 2011
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Google releases snappy, the compression library us...
Perhaps a more pertinent question: Is it any better than LZJB or LZO?
alecco
on March 23, 2011
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The LZO codebase is one of the worse spaghetti code messes I've seen in my life.
wmf
on March 22, 2011
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It's got a better license than LZJB (and maybe LZO depending on your views).
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on March 22, 2011
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Doesn't Google use GPL2 all over the place?
wmf
on March 22, 2011
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Just to use one example, I would assume that the crawler/indexer/ranker "secret sauce" in the appliance can't link against any GPL libraries.
tptacek
on March 22, 2011
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If you don't distribute your GPL-tainted code, I don't believe you need to do anything to comply with the GPL. This is why the Affero GPL exists.
tonfa
on March 23, 2011
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The keyword in the parent comment was "appliance" :)
tptacek
on March 23, 2011
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Doh! Missed that. Yep.
lemming
on March 22, 2011
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And LZO.
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