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@@ -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.