Merging upstream version 1.7.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/README b/README
index a7cbbd2..ab5e4b1 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ the one of lzip, bzip2 or gzip.
 
 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
-"public domain" version of the lzip data compressor, intended for those
-who can't distribute (or even use) GPL licensed Free Software.
+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").
 
 The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term
 archiving, taking into account both data integrity and decoder
@@ -34,8 +35,10 @@ the help of lziprecover, losing an entire archive just because of a
 corrupt byte near the beginning is a thing of the past.
 
 Pdlzip is also able to decompress legacy lzma-alone (.lzma) files.
-Lzma-alone is a very bad format. If you keep any lzma-alone files, it is
-advisable to recompress them to lzip format.
+Lzma-alone is a very bad format; it is essentially a raw LZMA stream.
+If you keep any lzma-alone files, it is advisable to recompress them to
+lzip format. Lziprecover can convert lzma-alone files to lzip format
+without recompressing.
 
 Pdlzip is written in C.
 
@@ -49,7 +52,7 @@ users of the most non-free platforms can share lzip files with everybody
 else.
 
 
-Copyright (C) 2010-2015 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
+Copyright (C) 2010-2016 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
 
 This file is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy,
 distribute and modify it.