Adding upstream version 1.4.upstream/1.4upstream

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 31 deletions

diff --git a/README b/README
index fae23bc..03fb742 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ lzip works. Lzd is written in C++.
 The source code of lzd is used in the lzip manual as a reference
 decompressor in the description of the lzip file format. Reading the lzip
 manual will help you understand the source code. Lzd is compliant with the
-lzip specification; it verifies the 3 integrity factors.
+lzip specification; it checks the 3 integrity factors.
 
 The source code of lzd is also used as a reference in the description of the
 media type 'application/lzip'.
@@ -18,33 +18,9 @@ ignores) the option '-d' for compatibility with other lzip tools. In
 particular, accepting the option '-d' allows lzd to be used as argument to
 the option '--lz' of the tools from the zutils package.
 
-Lzd will correctly decompress the concatenation of two or more compressed
+Lzd correctly decompresses the concatenation of two or more compressed
 files. The result is the concatenation of the corresponding decompressed
-data. Integrity of such concatenated compressed input is also verified.
-
-The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term archiving,
-taking into account both data integrity and decoder availability:
-
-   * The lzip format provides very safe integrity checking and some data
-     recovery means. The program lziprecover can repair bit flip errors
-     (one of the most common forms of data corruption) in lzip files, and
-     provides data recovery capabilities, including error-checked merging
-     of damaged copies of a file.
-
-   * The lzip format is as simple as possible (but not simpler). The lzip
-     manual provides the source code of a simple decompressor along with a
-     detailed explanation of how it works, so that with the only help of the
-     lzip manual it would be possible for a digital archaeologist to extract
-     the data from a lzip file long after quantum computers eventually
-     render LZMA obsolete.
-
-   * Additionally the lzip reference implementation is copylefted, which
-     guarantees that it will remain free forever.
-
-A nice feature of the lzip format is that a corrupt byte is easier to repair
-the nearer it is from the beginning of the file. Therefore, with the help of
-lziprecover, losing an entire archive just because of a corrupt byte near
-the beginning is a thing of the past.
+data. Integrity of such concatenated compressed input is also checked.
 
 The ideas embodied in lzd are due to (at least) the following people:
 Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv (for the LZ algorithm), Andrei Markov (for the
@@ -52,11 +28,10 @@ definition of Markov chains), G.N.N. Martin (for the definition of range
 encoding), and Igor Pavlov (for putting all the above together in LZMA).
 
 
-Copyright (C) 2013-2022 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
+Copyright (C) 2013-2024 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
 
 This file is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy,
 distribute, and modify it.
 
-The file Makefile.in is a data file used by configure to produce the
-Makefile. It has the same copyright owner and permissions that configure
-itself.
+The file Makefile.in is a data file used by configure to produce the Makefile.
+It has the same copyright owner and permissions that configure itself.