From 99f9e879a6a8bb54a65da99c12e0f390216c152a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lasse Collin Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:14:20 +0300 Subject: Major documentation update. Installation and packaging instructions were added. README and other generic docs were revised. Some of the documentation files are now installed to $docdir. --- AUTHORS | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) (limited to 'AUTHORS') diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS index d7bf3a9f..63a9815b 100644 --- a/AUTHORS +++ b/AUTHORS @@ -2,17 +2,26 @@ Authors of XZ Utils =================== -Igor Pavlov - * designed LZMA as an algorithm; - * wrote an implementation known as LZMA SDK, which is part of - the bigger 7-Zip project. - -Ville Koskinen - * wrote the first version of the gzip-like lzma command line - utility (C++) - * helped a lot with the documentation. - -Lasse Collin - * ported LZMA SDK to C and zlib-like API (liblzma); - * rewrote the command line tool again to use liblzma and pthreads. + XZ Utils is developed and maintained by Lasse Collin + . + + Major parts of liblzma are based on code written by Igor Pavlov, + specifically the LZMA SDK . Without + this code, XZ Utils wouldn't exist. + + The SHA-256 implementation in liblzma is based on the code found from + 7-Zip , which has a modified version of the SHA-256 + code found from Crypto++ . The SHA-256 code + in Crypto++ was written by Kevin Springle and Wei Dai. + + 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 script and their man pages for + XZ Utils. + + The GNU Autotools based build system contains files from many authors, + which I'm not trying list here. + + Several people have contributed fixes or reported bugs. Most of them + are mentioned in the file THANKS. -- cgit v1.2.3