1 gzip was written by Jean-loup Gailly <gzip@gnu.org>, with portions
2 written by Mark Adler (inflate.c), Peter Jannesen (unlzw.c) and
3 Haruhiko Okumura (unlzh.c). The zip deflate format was defined by Phil Katz.
4 Thanks to those who reported problems and suggested various
5 improvements. Here is a partial list of them:
7 Robert Abramovitz bromo@cougar.tandem.com
8 Jay Adams jka@ece.cmu.edu
9 Mark Adler madler@cco.caltech.edu
10 Edwin Allum edwin@csri.toronto.edu
11 Joseph Arceneaux jla@gnu.ai.mit.edu
12 Jim Avera jim.avera@gmail.com
13 Tim Auckland tda10@cus.cam.ac.uk
14 Ken-ichiro Aoki aoki@madonna.physics.ucla.edu
15 David Ascher da@marlowe.cog.brown.edu
16 Eric Backus ericb@lsid.hp.com
17 Becky A. Badgett badgett@cs.utexas.edu
18 Bo Nygaard Bai bai@iesd.auc.dk
19 Dave Barber dbarber@apocalypse.bbn.com
20 Daniel Barkalow barkalow@iabervon.org
21 Jeff Beadles jeff@onion.rain.com
22 Rene Beaulieu reneb@distri.hydro.qc.ca
23 Neal Becker neal@ctd.comsat.com
24 Dieter Becker becker@med-in.uni-sb.de
25 Nelson H. F. Beebe beebe@geronimo.math.utah.edu
26 David J. N. Begley dbegley@st.nepean.uws.edu.au
27 Eric Benoit eric@ecks.ca
28 Bob Beresh rberesh@rd.hydro.on.ca
29 Jim Bernard jbernard@iola.mines.colorado.edu
30 Karl Berry karl@freefriends.org
31 James W. Birdsall jwbirdsa@picarefy.picarefy.com
32 Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com
33 Hanno Böck hanno@hboeck.de
34 Meo Bogliolo bartolomeo.bogliolo@xenialab.it
35 Scott Bolte scott@craycos.com
36 Wayne E. Bouchard web@paladine.hacks.arizona.edu
37 Marc Boucher marc@cam.org
38 Ola Brahammar pt90ob@pt.hk-r.se
39 Dave Brennan brennan@hal.com
40 Alan Brown dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz
41 Michael L. Brown brown@wi.extrel.com
42 Rodney Brown rdb@mel.cocam.oz.au
44 Bill Bumgarner bbum@stone.com
45 Leila Burrell-Davis leilabd@syma.sussex.ac.uk
46 Rich Burridge rich.burridge@oracle.com
47 Roger Butenuth butenuth@ira.uka.de
48 Rodrigo Campos rodrigo@sdfg.com.ar
49 Jon Cargille jcargill@cs.wisc.edu
50 Bud Carlson bud@isle.pegasus.com
51 Lim Fung Chai fclim@i1sin.daq.semi.harris.com
52 Wes Chalfant wes@kofax.com
53 Andrew A. Chernov ache@astral.msk.su
54 Paul Close pdc@lunch.wpd.sgi.com
55 Jeff Coffler coffler@jac.enet.dec.com
56 Will Colley wcc3@occs.cs.oberlin.edu
57 Lasse Collin lasse.collin@tukaani.org
58 Roger Cornelius sherpa!rac@uunet.uu.net
59 Kevin Cosgrove kevinc@tekig6.pen.tek.com
60 Stephen J Cowley s.j.cowley@amtp.cam.ac.uk
61 Ron Cox roncox@indirect.com
62 Frank Crawford frank@photon.ansto.gov.au
63 James R. Crawford qralston@cislabs.pitt.edu
64 Lawrence Crowl crowl@research.cs.orst.edu
65 Klaus Dahlenburg kdburg@incoahe.hanse.de
66 William E Davidsen davidsen@ariel.crd.ge.com
67 John M. DeDourek dedourek@aixive2.cs.unb.ca
68 Jeff Deifik jdeifik@isi.edu
69 Vince DeMarco vince@whatnxt.cuc.ab.ca
70 Michael De La Rue p91152@cplab.physics.edinburgh.ac.uk
71 Jeff Delinck delinck@pa621a.inland.com
72 John DeRoo deroo@grout.adv.shr.dec.com
73 Jim Diamond zsd@axe.drea.dnd.ca
74 Antonio Diaz Diaz ant_diaz@teleline.es
75 Stefano Diomedi sd@teculx.tecsiel.it
76 Lawrence R. Dodd dodd@roebling.poly.edu
77 Matthew Donadio donadio@mxd120.rh.psu.edu
78 Andy Dougherty andy@crystal.phys.lafayette.edu
79 Darrell Duane dduane@mason1.gmu.edu
80 John Eaton jwe@che.utexas.edu
81 Will Edgington wedgingt@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov
82 Brian Edmonds edmonds@edmonds.home.cs.ubc.ca
83 Paul Eggert eggert@cs.ucla.edu
84 Enami enami@sys.ptg.sony.co.jp
85 Kristoffer Eriksson ske@pkmab.se
86 Daniel Eriksson m91der@bellatrix.tdb.uu.se
87 Denis Excoffier 3.1416@free.fr
88 Larry Fahnoe fahnoe@c1mpls.mn.org
89 Rik Faith faith@cs.unc.edu
90 Michael Felt aixtools@felt.demon.nl
91 Cristian Ferretti cfs@poincare.mat.puc.cl
92 Karl-Jose Filler pla_jfi@pki-nbg.philips.de
93 Valery Fine fine@vxcern.cern.ch
94 Bob Fischer bobf@milne.geology.yale.edu
95 Per Foreby perf@efd.lth.se
96 Alexander Fraser alex@cs.umb.edu
97 Noah Friedman friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu
98 Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@iphase.com
99 Gerhard Friesland-Köpke frieslan@rzdspc3.informatik.uni-hamburg.de
100 Andy Fyfe andy@scp.caltech.edu
101 Bdale Garbee bdale@gag.com
102 Geoff geoff@frs.faxon.com
103 Sam Geeraerts samgee@elmundolibre.be
104 Arnd Gerns gerns@informatik.uni-hildesheim.de
105 Kaveh R. Ghazi ghazi@staccato.rutgers.edu
106 Bjarni Ingi Gislason bjarniig@rhi.hi.is
107 Assaf Gordon assafgordon@gmail.com
108 Torbjörn Granlund tege@sics.se
109 Carl Greco cgreco@parrot.creighton.edu
110 Bruno Haible bruno@clisp.org
111 Junio Hamano junio@shadow.twinsun.com
112 Harald Hanche-Olsen hanche@ams.sunysb.edu
113 Darrel R. Hankerson hankedr@mail.auburn.edu
114 Mark Hanning-Lee markhl@romeo.caltech.edu
115 Lars Hecking st000002@hrz1.hrz.th-darmstadt.de
116 Aki Helin aki.helin@iki.fi
117 Rüdiger Helsch ruediger@ramz.ing.tu-bs.de
118 Mark C. Henderson mch@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca
119 Karl Heuer karl@kelp.boston.ma.us
120 Jarkko Hietaniemi jhi@dol-guldur.hut.fi
121 Thomas Hiller hiller@fzi.de
122 Eiji Hirai hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu
123 Vidar Holen vidar@vidarholen.net
124 Kjetil Torgrim Homme kjetilho@ifi.uio.no
125 Robert D. Houk rdh@sli.com
126 Jim Howard jim_howard@mentorg.com
127 Preston Hunt gt5708a@prism.gatech.edu
128 Shane C Hutchins sch@nymph.msel.unh.edu
129 Hutch hutchinson@wrair-emh1.army.mil
130 Lester Ingber ingber@alumni.caltech.edu
131 Ken Ishii ishii@sni-usa.com
132 Per Steinar Iversen iversen@vsfys1.fi.uib.no
133 Chris Jacobsen jacobsen@xray1.physics.sunysb.edu
134 Michal Jaegermann ntomczak@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca
135 Brian Jones brianj@skat.usc.edu
136 Denny de Jonge witaddj@dutrex.tudelft.nl
137 Arne H. Juul arnej@lise.unit.no
138 Dana Jacobsen jacobsd@solar.cor2.epa.gov
139 Dan Jacobson jidanni@jidanni.org
140 Peter Jannesen peter@ncs.nl
142 Yanyan Jiang jiangyy@outlook.com
143 Brian D. Johnston johnstonb@med.ge.com
144 Walter W. Jones wwj@candela.cfr.nist.gov
145 Tom Judson judson@scf.usc.edu
146 Henry G. Juengst juengst@saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de
147 Kiyoshi KANAZAWA yoi_no_myoujou@yahoo.co.jp
148 Young Mo Kang kym327@gmail.com
149 Sarantos Kapidakis sarantos%manteion@ics.forth.gr
150 Helmut Karlowski helmut.karlowski@ish.de
151 Amir J. Katz amir@matis.ingr.com
152 Steve Kelem kelem@castor.xilinx.com
153 Steven Kimball kimball@shrew.sanders.lockheed.com
154 Randy Kirchhof rkk@posms.aus.tx.us
155 Ned Kittlitz kittlitz@seagoon.sw.stratus.com
156 Sakai Kiyotaka ksakai@mtl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
157 Philip C Kizer pckizer@gonzo.tamu.edu
158 Pete Klammer pklammer@ouray.denver.colorado.edu
159 Fritz Kleemann kleemann@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de
160 Wilhelm B. Kloke wb@ifado.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de
161 Tom Kloos tk@sequent.com
162 Carsten Koch carsten.koch@icem.de
163 Winfried König win@in.rhein-main.de
164 Mathias Körber mathias@solomon.technet.sg
165 Steph Konigsdorfer s.konigsdorfer@frmy.bull.fr
166 Leif Kornstaedt leif@rumtifsl.ruessel.sub.org
167 Helge Kreutzmann debian@helgefjell.de
168 Michael D. Lawler mdlawler@bsu-cs.bsu.edu
169 Kevin Layer layer@franz.com
170 Howard D. Leadmon howardl@wb3ffv.ampr.org
171 Alexander Lehmann alex@hal.rhein-main.de
172 Simon Leinen simon@lia.di.epfl.ch
173 Burt Leland burt@molecular.com
174 Tony Leneis tony@plaza.adp.ds.com
175 Hugues Leroy hugues.leroy@irisa.fr
176 Marty Leisner leisner@eso.mc.xerox.com
177 Ilya Leoshkevich iii@linux.ibm.com
178 Jason Leschnik jason@leschnik.me
179 Charles Levert charles@aramis.comm.polymtl.ca
180 Dmitry V. Levin ldv@altlinux.org
181 Richard Levitte levitte@e.kth.se
182 Torbjörn Lindh toobii@elixir.e.kth.se
183 David R. Linn drl@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
184 Antonio Lioy cat@athena.polito.it
185 Jamie Lokier u90jl@ecs.oxford.ac.uk
186 Richard Lloyd R.K.Lloyd@csc.liv.ac.uk
187 David J. MacKenzie djm@eng.umd.edu
188 John R MacMillan john@chance.gts.org
189 Ron Male male@eso.mc.xerox.com
190 Jakub Martisko jamartis@redhat.com
191 Don R. Maszle maze@bea.lbl.gov
192 Jaye Mathisen osyjm@cs.montana.edu
193 Telly Mavroidis mavroidi@acf2.nyu.edu
194 Imed Eddine Mbarki mbarki@pacific.cmpe.psu.edu
195 Steeve McCauley steeve@pooh.geophys.mcgill.ca
196 Tom McConnell tmcconne@sedona.intel.com
197 Tod McQuillin mcquill@ccit05.duq.edu
198 Tye McQueen tye@spillman.com
199 Bernd Melchers melchers@chemie.fu-berlin.de
200 Jason Merrill jason@jarthur.claremont.edu
201 Dean S. Messing deanm@medulla.labs.tek.com
202 M. Mesturino mesturino@cselt.stet.it
203 Luke Mewburn zak@rmit.edu.au
204 Jim Meyering jim@meyering.net
205 Dragan Milicic milicic@math.utah.edu
206 Frédéric Miserey none.fred@applelink.apple.com
207 Marcel J.E. Mol marcel@duteca.et.tudelft.nl
208 Soren Juul Moller sjm@dde.dk
209 Chris Moore moore@src.bae.co.uk
210 Dan Mosedale mosedale@genome.stanford.edu
211 Helmut Mülner hmuelner@fiicmds04.tu-graz.ac.at
212 Urban D Müller umueller@amiga.physik.unizh.ch
213 Ulrich Müller ulm@vsnhdb.cern.ch
214 Timothy Murphy tim@maths.tcd.ie
215 Greg Naber greg@squally.halcyon.com
216 Thiemo Nagel thiemo.nagel@ph.tum.de
217 Jay Nayegandhi jayng@bbiv02.enet.dec.com
218 Paul K. Neville II pkn2@idsi.com
219 Karl L. Noell noell@informatik.fh-wiesbaden.dbp.de
220 Demizu Noritoshi nori-d@is.aist-nara.ac.jp
221 Mark Nudelman markn@greenwoodsoftware.com
222 Todd Ogasawara todd@protege.pegasus.com
223 Helge Oldach helge.oldach@stollmann.de
224 Arthur David Olson ado@elsie.nci.nih.gov
225 Piet van Oostrum piet@cs.ruu.nl
226 Rafael R. Pappalardo rafapa@obelix.cica.es
227 Mike Pearlman canuck@masc38.rice.edu
228 Jörg-Volker Peetz peetz@dynato-kyma.net
229 Yves Perrenoud pyves@nuga.alphanet.ch
230 Hal Peterson hrp@pecan.cray.com
231 Pascal Petit petit@cadillac.ibp.fr
232 Bruno Pillard bp@chorus.fr
233 François Pinard pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
234 Jay Pinkos pinkos@butyng.bu.edu
235 Petr Písař petr.pisar@atlas.cz
236 Thomas Plass thomas@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
237 Mike Polo mikep@cfsmo.honeywell.com
238 Francesco Potortì pot@fly.cnuce.cnr.it
239 Will Priest bpriest@lobby.ti.com
240 Johannes Przybilla johannes.przybilla@rwth-aachen.de
241 David Purves purves@apogee.com
242 Andreas Raab ar@nvmr.robin.de
243 Pavel Raiskup praiskup@redhat.com
244 Eric S. Raymond esr@snark.thyrsus.com
245 Klaus Reimann kr@cip.physik.uni-stuttgart.de
246 Michael Rendell michael@mercury.cs.mun.ca
247 Hal Render render@massive.uccs.edu
248 Julian F. Reschke julian@math.uni-muenster.de
249 Phil Richards Phil.Richards@prg.oxford.ac.uk
250 Mark Roberts mroberts@rapid-arts-movement.de
251 Roland B Roberts roberts@nsrl31.nsrl.rochester.edu
252 Arnold Robbins arnold@cc.gatech.edu
253 Kevin Rodgers kevin@rolling-stone.den.mmc.com
254 Kai Uwe Rommel rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
255 Paul Rubin phr@america.telebit.com
256 Wolfgang Rupprecht wolfgang@wsrcc.com
257 Rusty Russell rusty@rustcorp.com.au
258 Jonathan Ryshpan jon@amito.hitachi.com
259 Paul A Sand pas@unh.edu
260 Tony Sanders sanders@bsdi.com
261 Mike Sangrey mike@sojurn.lns.pa.us
262 Niimi Satoshi a01309@cfi.waseda.ac.jp
263 Fulvio Scapin trantorvega@gmail.com
264 Marc Schaefer sysadm@alphanet.ch
265 Andreas Schwab schwab@lamothe.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
266 Eric Schenk schenk@cs.toronto.edu
267 Eric P. Scott eps@cs.sfsu.edu
268 Carpe Sébastien Sebastien.Carpe@worldline.com
269 Olaf Seibert rhialto@mbfys.kun.nl
270 Sunando Sen sens@fasecon.econ.nyu.edu
271 Harry Shamansky hts@hertz.eng.ohio-state.edu
272 Amos Shapira amoss@cs.huji.ac.il
273 Rick Sladkey jrs@world.std.com
274 Daniel L Smith dls@autodesk.com
275 Fred Smith fredex%fcshome@merk.merk.com
276 Ripduman Sohan Ripduman.Sohan@cl.cam.ac.uk
277 Stephen Soliday soliday@ncat.edu
278 Paul Southworth pauls@css.itd.umich.edu
279 Rob Spencer robbie@winkle.bhpese.oz.au
280 Richard Stallman rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu
281 Carsten Steger carsten.steger@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
282 David Sundstrom sunds@anon.asic.sc.ti.com
283 Ed Sznyter ews@babel.babel.com
284 Hideaki Tanabe arctanx@iyeyasu.ynl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
285 Andrew Telford ajt@peregrin.resmel.bhp.com.au
286 Glenn E. Thobe thobe@getunx.info.com
287 Kei Thomsen kt@keihh.hanse.de
288 Karsten Thygesen karthy@dannug.dk
289 Mark Towfiq towfiq@microdyne.com
290 Jeff Treece treece@sabbagh.com
291 Oliver Trepte oliver@ikaros.fysik4.kth.se
292 Stephane Tsacas slt@is21.isoft.fr
293 Stephen Tweedie sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk
294 John R. Vanderpool fish@daacdev1.stx.com
295 Sotiris Vassilopoulos vassilopoulos@virginia.edu
296 Pedro A. M. Vazquez vazquez@iqm.unicamp.br
297 Rob Vermaas rob.vermaas@gmail.com
298 Arjan de Vet devet@win.tue.nl
299 Larry W. Virden lvirden@cas.org
300 Vadim V. Vlasov vvlasov@inucres.msk.su
301 Eduard Vopicka eduard.vopicka@vse.cs
302 Theo Vosse vosse@ruls41.leidenuniv.nl
303 Darin Wayrynen darin@pcg.uucp
304 Marcel Waldvogel marcel@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch
305 Stephen J. Walick steve@nshore.org
306 Jeffrey Walton noloader@gmail.com
307 Gray Watson gray@antaire.com
308 David Watt dmwatt@smersh.cambridge.ma.us
309 Jaroslaw Weglinski jaroslaw.weglinski@atendesoftware.pl
310 Scott Weikart scott@igc.apc.org
311 Ivo Welch iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu
312 Bernhard M. Wiedemann bwiedemann@suse.de
313 Jochen Wiedmann zrawi01@zmcipdec1.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de
314 Gijsb. Wiesenekker wiesenecker@sara.nl
315 Wietze van Winden wietze@swi.psy.uva.nl
316 Carl Worth cworth@cworth.org
317 Frank Wübbeling wuebbel@math.uni-muenster.de
318 Larry W. Virden lwv26@cas.org
319 Bill Wohler wohler@sap-ag.de
320 Lv Ying lvying6@huawei.com
321 Denys Zagorui denys.zagorui@globallogic.com
322 Jamie Zawinski jwz@lucid.com
323 Yuxi Zhang YZhang@qnx.com
324 Christos Zoulas christos@deshaw.com