Re: Compression with CLIENT_COMPRESS protocol ?

[Paul DuBois]

At 12:18 PM -0500 4/27/99, <unknown@stripped> wrote:
>>   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.

Huh?

MySQL already includes GNU code - the readline library.

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