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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. |