Compression improvements

[bmwiedemann]

one bugfix
and three commits that help to get closer to identical compressed files after applying deltas

[jmacd]

I'd like to stall this for a moment.

There's a licensing question:
I am currently planning to re-license the Xdelta code base in the public
domain.
There's a minor complication, and I need to speak with my attorney.
I don't want to worry about CLAs and such, and I just need to make sure I'm
not making mistakes.

The change looks good.
Josh

On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Bernhard M. Wiedemann <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

one bugfix
and three commits that help to get closer to identical compressed files

after applying deltas

You can view, comment on, or merge this pull request online at:

#207
Commit Summary

• xz magic is actually 6 bytes long
• use gzip -n option for compression
• add compression-level detection logic
• detect xz, bz2 and gz compression level

File Changes

• A xdelta3/xdelta3-compr.h
  https://github.com/jmacd/xdelta/pull/207/files#diff-0 (42)
• M xdelta3/xdelta3-internal.h
  https://github.com/jmacd/xdelta/pull/207/files#diff-1 (1)
• M xdelta3/xdelta3-main.h
  https://github.com/jmacd/xdelta/pull/207/files#diff-2 (16)

Patch Links:

• https://github.com/jmacd/xdelta/pull/207.patch
• https://github.com/jmacd/xdelta/pull/207.diff

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[bmwiedemann]

I happen to know a bit about open-source licensing and remember that for example there is no public-domain in Germany, so licensing under the CC0 license ( https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ ) would be the closest you could get. But for some reason few people do that for code and rather chose the MIT, X11 or BSD (2- or 3-clause) license if they wanted to be very permissive or GPLv2 or GPLv3+ if they want other people to contribute back.

[bmwiedemann]

any update on this?

[jmacd]

Hi,
Sorry I broke this pull request, but I did make a change in the license and now I'm trying to find the time to properly release and announce it. After some research, I chose to use APLv2.
The branches are
https://github.com/jmacd/xdelta/tree/release3_1_apl
https://github.com/jmacd/xdelta/tree/release3_0_apl
Josh

[bmwiedemann]

I rebased my branch ontop of your release3_0_apl branch. Want to re-open this PR or should I open a new one?

[bmwiedemann]

moved to #255