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>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com> writes: Joel> There were a number of options mentioned but zlib is my Joel> first choice. The license does not impose any burdens on a Joel> system using this library. zlo appears to be a good Joel> technical option but is GPL'ed. Joel> Package: zlib Location: Joel> http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib License: "BSD style", Joel> no liability, acknowledge authors Comments: Joel> This is my first choice and provided 3;1 compression on the Joel> executable I am downloading. The license is very nice for Joel> use in embedded systems. Joel> Package: lzop Location: Joel> http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/Staff/lux/marco/lzo.html Joel> License: GPL Comments: Joel> Technically this looks very nice. It was designed for Joel> real-time compression and decompression. But the license is Joel> the "plain GPL" which presents problems for inclusion in an Joel> embedded application. If the license were less encumbered, Joel> then I would be hard pressed to choose between zlib and Joel> lzop. Why does an embedded system impose special considerations for licensing? If you are concerned about distribution in binary only form, this is allowed, provided that you give a reference to where the source may be found. If you make the compression routine a seperate task and tie it in with a pipeline, then you need not coply with the GPL for the rest of your system, so what is the problem? Joel> I dismissed kermit because I remembered that it could not be Joel> included in Linux distributions because of the licensing. Joel> That leads me to believe that its license is too restrictive Joel> for my purposes. I think I commented that I did not remember the details here. Is it that each user of Kermit must download his own copy, or what? -- -------- "And there came a writing to him from Elijah" [2Ch 21:12] -------- Robert Jay Brown III rj@eli.elilabs.com http://www.elilabs.com 1 847 705-0424 Elijah Laboratories Inc.; 37 South Greenwood Avenue; Palatine, IL 60067-6328 ----- M o d e l i n g t h e M e t h o d s o f t h e M i n d ------