| Authors of XZ Utils | |
| =================== | |
| 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, | |
| 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/>. | |
| 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. | |
| The initial version of the .lz (lzip) decoder was written | |
| by Michał Górny. | |
| Architecture-specific CRC optimizations were contributed by | |
| Ilya Kurdyukov, Chenxi Mao, and Xi Ruoyao. | |
| 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. | |
| Many people have contributed improvements or reported bugs. | |
| Most of these people 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' directory 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. | |