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Authors of XZ Utils
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XZ Utils is developed and maintained by
Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>.
Major parts of liblzma are based on code written by Igor Pavlov,
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specifically the LZMA SDK <https://7-zip.org/sdk.html>. Without
this code, XZ Utils wouldn't exist.
The SHA-256 implementation in liblzma is based on code written by
Wei Dai in Crypto++ Library <https://www.cryptopp.com/>.
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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.
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The initial version of the threaded .xz decompressor was written
by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior.
The initial version of the .lz (lzip) decoder was written
by Michał Górny.
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Architecture-specific CRC optimizations were contributed by
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Ilya Kurdyukov, Hans Jansen, Chenxi Mao, and Xi Ruoyao.
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Other authors:
- Jonathan Nieder
- Joachim Henke
Special author: Jia Tan was a co-maintainer in 2022-2024. He and
the team behind him inserted a backdoor (CVE-2024-3094) into
XZ Utils 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 releases. He suddenly disappeared when
this was discovered.
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Many people have contributed improvements or reported bugs.
Most of these people are mentioned in the file THANKS.
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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:
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- GNU getopt_long() in the 'lib' directory is included for
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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.
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