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@@ -2,22 +2,20 @@ Authors of XZ Utils =================== - XZ Utils is developed and maintained by Lasse Collin - <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> and Jia Tan <jiat0218@gmail.com>. + 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 the code found from - 7-Zip <https://7-zip.org/>, which has a modified version of the SHA-256 - code found from Crypto++ <https://www.cryptopp.com/>. The SHA-256 code - in Crypto++ was written by Kevin Springle and Wei Dai. + The SHA-256 implementation in liblzma is based on code written by + Wei Dai in Crypto++ Library <https://www.cryptopp.com/>. - 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 scripts and their man pages for - XZ Utils. + 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. @@ -25,15 +23,36 @@ Authors of XZ Utils The initial version of the .lz (lzip) decoder was written by Michał Górny. - CLMUL-accelerated CRC code was contributed by Ilya Kurdyukov. + Architecture-specific CRC optimizations were contributed by + Ilya Kurdyukov, Hans Jansen, and Chenxi Mao. Other authors: - Jonathan Nieder - Joachim Henke - The GNU Autotools-based build system contains files from many authors, - which I'm not trying to list here. + 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. - Several people have contributed fixes or reported bugs. Most of them - are mentioned in the file THANKS. + 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. |