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jpayne@68: Authors of XZ Utils
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jpayne@68:     XZ Utils is developed and maintained by
jpayne@68:     Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>.
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jpayne@68:     Major parts of liblzma are based on code written by Igor Pavlov,
jpayne@68:     specifically the LZMA SDK <https://7-zip.org/sdk.html>. Without
jpayne@68:     this code, XZ Utils wouldn't exist.
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jpayne@68:     The SHA-256 implementation in liblzma is based on code written by
jpayne@68:     Wei Dai in Crypto++ Library <https://www.cryptopp.com/>.
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jpayne@68:     A few scripts have been adapted from GNU gzip. The original
jpayne@68:     versions were written by Jean-loup Gailly, Charles Levert, and
jpayne@68:     Paul Eggert. Andrew Dudman helped adapting the scripts and their
jpayne@68:     man pages for XZ Utils.
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jpayne@68:     The initial version of the threaded .xz decompressor was written
jpayne@68:     by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior.
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jpayne@68:     The initial version of the .lz (lzip) decoder was written
jpayne@68:     by Michał Górny.
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jpayne@68:     Architecture-specific CRC optimizations were contributed by
jpayne@68:     Ilya Kurdyukov, Hans Jansen, and Chenxi Mao.
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jpayne@68:     Other authors:
jpayne@68:       - Jonathan Nieder
jpayne@68:       - Joachim Henke
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jpayne@68:     Special author: Jia Tan was a co-maintainer in 2022-2024. He and
jpayne@68:     the team behind him inserted a backdoor (CVE-2024-3094) into
jpayne@68:     XZ Utils 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 releases. He suddenly disappeared when
jpayne@68:     this was discovered.
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jpayne@68:     Many people have contributed improvements or reported bugs.
jpayne@68:     Most of these people are mentioned in the file THANKS.
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jpayne@68:     The translations of the command line tools and man pages have been
jpayne@68:     contributed by many people via the Translation Project:
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jpayne@68:       - https://translationproject.org/domain/xz.html
jpayne@68:       - https://translationproject.org/domain/xz-man.html
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jpayne@68:     The authors of the translated man pages are in the header comments
jpayne@68:     of the man page files. In the source package, the authors of the
jpayne@68:     translations are in po/*.po and po4a/*.po files.
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jpayne@68:     Third-party code whose authors aren't listed here:
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jpayne@68:       - GNU getopt_long() in the 'lib' directory is included for
jpayne@68:         platforms that don't have a usable getopt_long().
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jpayne@68:       - The build system files from GNU Autoconf, GNU Automake,
jpayne@68:         GNU Libtool, GNU Gettext, Autoconf Archive, and related files.
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