This is the pre-packaged Debian Linux version of the zlib compression library. It was packaged by Michael Alan Dorman from sources originally retrieved from ftp.uu.net in the directory /pub/archiving/zip/zlib as the file zlib-1.0.4.tar.gz. There is a homepage at http://www.gzip.org/zlib/ Acknowledgments: The deflate format used by zlib was defined by Phil Katz. The deflate and zlib specifications were written by Peter Deutsch. Thanks to all the people who reported problems and suggested various improvements in zlib; they are too numerous to cite here. Copyright notice: Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software. Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions: 1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required. 2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software. 3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution. Jean-loup Gailly Mark Adler jloup@gzip.org madler@alumni.caltech.edu