[Zlib-devel] zlib and LZMA

[Peleg, Guy (VMS Engineering)]

>>I wanted to let you all know that I have been discussing adding LZMA  
>>to zlib and gzip with Igor Pavlov (author of 7-zip).  LZMA will  
>>provide a higher compression alternative to deflate, of course at the

>>cost of more CPU and more memory.  I picked LZMA since it compresses  
>>better than most of the block-sort software I've seen, it provides  
>>relatively fast decompression, it is open source, and it appears to  
>>be patent free.

Any idea if ZLIB's license will be impacted? ZLIB will be shipping
with the latest version of OpenVMS (commercial application) and we'll 
hate to have to pull it out.

Guy Peleg
OpenVMS Engineering

(I'll be happy to assist with the coding)