Embedded compression(LZ4) about zeroformatter HOT 9 OPEN

The license is AGPL, can be found here: https://ravendb.net/terms (you have to select the tab 'Open Source License EULA'). Dammit.

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Just out of curiosity, why is lz4.net not a good choice? FYI, I am currently taking a dependency on it in Easy.Compression.

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latest LZ4 implementation is improved https://github.com/lz4/lz4 but lz4.net is not ported yet.
RavenDB has own LZ4 implemantation https://github.com/ayende/ravendb/tree/v4.0/src/Sparrow/Compression and it is so good.

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I see, RavenDB's implementation is indeed quite interesting, can you not use that? I wonder what the license is.

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Well, RavenDB is proprietary software, I think it is difficult.

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Stupid question: what if someone ends up writing code quite similar on his own, without even knowing someone published the same code with a license that doesn't allow copying it? Who can say it was copied?

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@snalesso if you can prove that you wrote that code 100% on your own, everything is fine. I don't think that ravendb will instantly sue you if they noticed, but coping or changing the code from them is strictly forbidden.

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Thank you @alkalinee. Anyway, I'm pretty confused since, potentially, someone can end up writing the exact same code as yours. With much more probability, just the same code structure. How can he prove he didn't copy since the "copied" code is open source?
Lawyers paradise I guess.

P.S. Obviously I'm talking about few LOC

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@neuecc can you use this https://github.com/MiloszKrajewski/K4os.Compression.LZ4?
I am considering taking this dependency to compress ZeroFormatter. Or will MessagePack.CSharp (LZ4) outperform ZeroFormatter + K4os.Compression.LZ4?

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