Merging upstream version 1.10.

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

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/README b/README
index 517adcf..6c29e49 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,17 +1,21 @@
 Description
 
-Pdlzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to
-the one of lzip, bzip2 or gzip.
+Pdlzip is a permissively licensed implementation of the lzip data
+compressor, intended for those who can't distribute (or even use) GPL
+licensed Free Software. (The name of pdlzip comes from 'public domain
+lzip'). Pdlzip is written in C and is (hope)fully compatible with lzip 1.4
+or newer.
 
-Pdlzip uses the lzip file format; the files produced by pdlzip are
-(hope)fully compatible with lzip-1.4 or newer. Pdlzip is in fact a
-permissively licensed implementation of the lzip data compressor,
-intended for those who can't distribute (or even use) GPL licensed Free
-Software. (The name of pdlzip comes from "public domain lzip").
+Lzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to the
+one of gzip or bzip2. Lzip can compress about as fast as gzip (lzip -0)
+or compress most files more than bzip2 (lzip -9). Decompression speed is
+intermediate between gzip and bzip2. Lzip is better than gzip and bzip2
+from a data recovery perspective. Lzip has been designed, written and
+tested with great care to replace gzip and bzip2 as the standard
+general-purpose compressed format for unix-like systems.
 
-The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term
-archiving, taking into account both data integrity and decoder
-availability:
+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 lziprecover program can repair bit flip errors
@@ -20,11 +24,11 @@ availability:
      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.
+     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.
@@ -40,8 +44,6 @@ If you keep any lzma-alone files, it is advisable to recompress them to
 lzip format. Lziprecover can convert some lzma-alone files to lzip format
 without recompressing.
 
-Pdlzip is written in C.
-
 Pdlzip includes public domain (de)compression code from the LZMA SDK
 (Software Development Kit) written by Igor Pavlov.
 
@@ -52,7 +54,7 @@ users of the most non-free platforms can share lzip files with everybody
 else.
 
 
-Copyright (C) 2010-2018 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
+Copyright (C) 2010-2019 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
 
 This file is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy,
 distribute and modify it.