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@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ Authors of XZ Utils
The SHA-256 implementation in liblzma is based on code written by
Wei Dai in Crypto++ Library <https://www.cryptopp.com/>.
- Some scripts have been adapted from gzip. The original versions
- were written by Jean-loup Gailly, Charles Levert, and Paul Eggert.
- Andrew Dudman helped adapting the scripts and their man pages for
- XZ Utils.
+ A few scripts have been adapted from GNU gzip. The original
+ versions were written by Jean-loup Gailly, Charles Levert, and
+ Paul Eggert. Andrew Dudman helped adapting the scripts and their
+ man pages for XZ Utils.
The initial version of the threaded .xz decompressor was written
by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior.
@@ -30,9 +30,24 @@ Authors of XZ Utils
- Jonathan Nieder
- Joachim Henke
- The GNU Autotools-based build system contains files from many authors,
- which I'm not trying to list here.
+ Many people have contributed improvements or reported bugs.
+ Most of these people are mentioned in the file THANKS.
- Several people have contributed fixes or reported bugs. Most of them
- are mentioned in the file THANKS.
+ The translations of the command line tools and man pages have been
+ contributed by many people via the Translation Project:
+
+ - https://translationproject.org/domain/xz.html
+ - https://translationproject.org/domain/xz-man.html
+
+ The authors of the translated man pages are in the header comments
+ of the man page files. In the source package, the authors of the
+ translations are in po/*.po and po4a/*.po files.
+
+ Third-party code whose authors aren't listed here:
+
+ - GNU getopt_long() in the 'lib' direcotry is included for
+ platforms that don't have a usable getopt_long().
+
+ - The build system files from GNU Autoconf, GNU Automake,
+ GNU Libtool, GNU Gettext, Autoconf Archive, and related files.