From: Date: April 27 1999 7:18pm
Subject: Re: Compression with CLIENT_COMPRESS protocol ?
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>   Is  it  normal  ?  Is  there  a plan to optimize the CLIENT_COMPRESS
>   protocol  in order to have more rapid transfers ? Why not to use the
>   gzip algorithm (it's GNU isn't it ?) ?

Perhaps because whenever you incorporate GNU code into a package and
release it, the entire package falls under GNU license, which would be
remarkably horrible for MySQL.