AUTHORS

   1
   2 Authors of XZ Utils
   3 ===================
   4
   5     XZ Utils is developed and maintained by Lasse Collin
   6     <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> and Jia Tan <jiat0218@gmail.com>.
   7
   8     Major parts of liblzma are based on code written by Igor Pavlov,
   9     specifically the LZMA SDK <https://7-zip.org/sdk.html>. Without
  10     this code, XZ Utils wouldn't exist.
  11
  12     The SHA-256 implementation in liblzma is based on code written by
  13     Wei Dai in Crypto++ Library <https://www.cryptopp.com/>.
  14
  15     A few scripts have been adapted from GNU gzip. The original
  16     versions were written by Jean-loup Gailly, Charles Levert, and
  17     Paul Eggert. Andrew Dudman helped adapting the scripts and their
  18     man pages for XZ Utils.
  19
  20     The initial version of the threaded .xz decompressor was written
  21     by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior.
  22
  23     The initial version of the .lz (lzip) decoder was written
  24     by Michał Górny.
  25
  26     Architecture-specific CRC optimizations were contributed by
  27     Ilya Kurdyukov, Hans Jansen, and Chenxi Mao.
  28
  29     Other authors:
  30       - Jonathan Nieder
  31       - Joachim Henke
  32
  33     Many people have contributed improvements or reported bugs.
  34     Most of these people are mentioned in the file THANKS.
  35
  36     The translations of the command line tools and man pages have been
  37     contributed by many people via the Translation Project:
  38
  39       - https://translationproject.org/domain/xz.html
  40       - https://translationproject.org/domain/xz-man.html
  41
  42     The authors of the translated man pages are in the header comments
  43     of the man page files. In the source package, the authors of the
  44     translations are in po/*.po and po4a/*.po files.
  45
  46     Third-party code whose authors aren't listed here:
  47
  48       - GNU getopt_long() in the 'lib' directory is included for
  49         platforms that don't have a usable getopt_long().
  50
  51       - The build system files from GNU Autoconf, GNU Automake,
  52         GNU Libtool, GNU Gettext, Autoconf Archive, and related files.
  53