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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 compatible with lzip 1.4 or newer.
Pdlzip is written in C.
Lzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to the one
of gzip or bzip2. Lzip uses a simplified form of the 'Lempel-Ziv-Markov
chain-Algorithm' (LZMA) stream format to maximize interoperability. The
maximum dictionary size is 512 MiB so that any lzip file can be decompressed
on 32-bit machines. Lzip provides accurate and robust 3-factor integrity
checking. 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.
of gzip or bzip2. Lzip uses a simplified form of LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov
chain-Algorithm) designed to achieve complete interoperability between
implementations. The maximum dictionary size is 512 MiB so that any lzip
file can be decompressed on 32-bit machines. Lzip provides accurate and
robust 3-factor integrity checking. 'lzip -0' compresses about as fast as
gzip, while 'lzip -9' compresses most files more than bzip2. Decompression
speed is intermediate between gzip and bzip2. Lzip provides better data
recovery capabilities than gzip and bzip2. Lzip has been designed, written,
and tested with great care to replace gzip and bzip2 as 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:
@ -50,12 +50,6 @@ without recompressing.
Pdlzip includes public domain compression/decompression code from the LZMA
SDK (Software Development Kit) written by Igor Pavlov.
I would not write non-copylefted software unless it is too simple to be
worth copylefting it, but one of the uses of the lzip format is the
interchange of information, and it is therefore desirable that even the
users of the most non-free platforms can share lzip files with everybody
else.
Copyright (C) 2010-2024 Antonio Diaz Diaz.