gzip was written by Jean-loup Gailly <jloup@chorus.fr>, with portions
written by Mark Adler (inflate.c), Peter Jannesen (unlzw.c) and
Haruhiko Okumura (unlzh.c). The zip deflate format was defined by Phil Katz.
Thanks to those who reported problems and suggested various
improvements. Here is a partial list of them:
Jay Adams jka@ece.cmu.edu
Mark Adler madler@cco.caltech.edu
Edwin Allum edwin@csri.toronto.edu
Joseph Arceneaux jla@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Tim Auckland tda10@cus.cam.ac.uk
Ken-ichiro Aoki aoki@madonna.physics.ucla.edu
David Ascher da@marlowe.cog.brown.edu
Eric Backus ericb@lsid.hp.com
Becky A. Badgett badgett@cs.utexas.edu
Dave Barber dbarber@apocalypse.bbn.com
Rene Beaulieu reneb@distri.hydro.qc.ca
Neal Becker neal@ctd.comsat.com
Dieter Becker becker@med-in.uni-sb.de
Nelson H. F. Beebe beebe@geronimo.math.utah.edu
Jeff Beadles jeff@onion.rain.com
David J. N. Begley dbegley@st.nepean.uws.edu.au
Jim Bernard jbernard@iola.mines.colorado.edu
Karl Berry karl@cs.umb.edu
James W. Birdsall jwbirdsa@picarefy.picarefy.com
Wayne E. Bouchard web@paladine.hacks.arizona.edu
Marc Boucher marc@cam.org
Ola Brahammar pt90ob@pt.hk-r.se
Dave Brennan brennan@hal.com
Alan Brown dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz
Rodney Brown rdb@mel.cocam.oz.au
Bill Bumgarner bbum@stone.com
Leila Burrell-Davis leilabd@syma.sussex.ac.uk
Roger Butenuth butenuth@ira.uka.de
Bud Carlson bud@isle.pegasus.com
Lim Fung Chai fclim@i1sin.daq.semi.harris.com
Wes Chalfant wes@kofax.com
Andrew A. Chernov ache@astral.msk.su
Paul Close pdc@lunch.wpd.sgi.com
Kevin Cosgrove kevinc@tekig6.pen.tek.com
Stephen J Cowley s.j.cowley@amtp.cam.ac.uk
Frank Crawford frank@photon.ansto.gov.au
James R. Crawford qralston@cislabs.pitt.edu
Lawrence Crowl crowl@research.cs.orst.edu
Klaus Dahlenburg kdburg@incoahe.hanse.de
William E Davidsen davidsen@ariel.crd.ge.com
John M. DeDourek dedourek@aixive2.cs.unb.ca
Jeff Deifik jdeifik@isi.edu
Vince DeMarco vince@whatnxt.cuc.ab.ca
Michael De La Rue p91152@cplab.physics.edinburgh.ac.uk
John DeRoo deroo@grout.adv.shr.dec.com
Stefano Diomedi sd@teculx.tecsiel.it
Lawrence R. Dodd dodd@roebling.poly.edu
Matthew Donadio donadio@mxd120.rh.psu.edu
Andy Dougherty andy@crystal.phys.lafayette.edu
John Eaton jwe@che.utexas.edu
Brian Edmonds edmonds@edmonds.home.cs.ubc.ca
Paul Eggert eggert@twinsun.com
Enami enami@sys.ptg.sony.co.jp
Kristoffer Eriksson ske@pkmab.se
Daniel Eriksson m91der@bellatrix.tdb.uu.se
Rik Faith faith@cs.unc.edu
Larry Fahnoe fahnoe@c1mpls.mn.org
Cristian Ferretti cfs@poincare.mat.puc.cl
Karl-Jose Filler pla_jfi@pki-nbg.philips.de
Per Foreby perf@efd.lth.se
Alexander Fraser alex@cs.umb.edu
Noah Friedman friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@iphase.com
Andy Fyfe andy@scp.caltech.edu
Geoff geoff@frs.faxon.com
Kaveh R. Ghazi ghazi@staccato.rutgers.edu
Torbjorn Granlund tege@sics.se
Carl Greco cgreco@parrot.creighton.edu
Bruno Haible haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de
Junio Hamano junio@shadow.twinsun.com
Harald Hanche-Olsen hanche@ams.sunysb.edu
Darrel R. Hankerson hankedr@mail.auburn.edu
Lars Hecking st000002@hrz1.hrz.th-darmstadt.de
Ruediger Helsch ruediger@ramz.ing.tu-bs.de
Mark C. Henderson mch@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca
Karl Heuer karl@kelp.boston.ma.us
Jarkko Hietaniemi jhi@dol-guldur.hut.fi
Thomas Hiller hiller@fzi.de
Eiji Hirai hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu
Kjetil Torgrim Homme kjetilho@ifi.uio.no
Jim Howard jim_howard@mentorg.com
Preston Hunt gt5708a@prism.gatech.edu
Shane C Hutchins sch@nymph.msel.unh.edu
Hutch hutchinson@wrair-emh1.army.mil
Lester Ingber ingber@alumni.caltech.edu
Ken Ishii ishii@sni-usa.com
Per Steinar Iversen iversen@vsfys1.fi.uib.no
Michal Jaegermann ntomczak@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca
Brian Jones brianj@skat.usc.edu
Denny de Jonge witaddj@dutrex.tudelft.nl
Arne H. Juul arnej@lise.unit.no
Dana Jacobsen jacobsd@solar.cor2.epa.gov
Peter Jannesen peter@ncs.nl
Tom Judson judson@scf.usc.edu
Henry G. Juengst juengst@saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de
Sarantos Kapidakis sarantos%manteion@ics.forth.gr
Amir J. Katz amir@matis.ingr.com
Steve Kelem kelem@castor.xilinx.com
Randy Kirchhof rkk@posms.aus.tx.us
Ned Kittlitz kittlitz@seagoon.sw.stratus.com
Sakai Kiyotaka ksakai@mtl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Philip C Kizer pckizer@gonzo.tamu.edu
Pete Klammer pklammer@ouray.denver.colorado.edu
Fritz Kleemann kleemann@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de
Carsten Koch carsten.koch@icem.de
Winfried Koenig win@in.rhein-main.de
Steph Konigsdorfer s.konigsdorfer@frmy.bull.fr
Leif Kornstaedt leif@rumtifsl.ruessel.sub.org
Michael D. Lawler mdlawler@bsu-cs.bsu.edu
Kevin Layer layer@franz.com
Howard D. Leadmon howardl@wb3ffv.ampr.org
Alexander Lehmann alex@hal.rhein-main.de
Simon Leinen simon@lia.di.epfl.ch
Burt Leland burt@molecular.com
Hugues Leroy hugues.leroy@irisa.fr
Charles Levert charles@aramis.comm.polymtl.ca
Richard Levitte levitte@e.kth.se
Torbj|rn Lindh toobii@elixir.e.kth.se
David R. Linn drl@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
Antonio Lioy cat@athena.polito.it
Jamie Lokier u90jl@ecs.oxford.ac.uk
David J. MacKenzie djm@eng.umd.edu
John R MacMillan john@chance.gts.org
Ron Male male@eso.mc.xerox.com
Don R. Maszle maze@bea.lbl.gov
Steeve McCauley steeve@pooh.geophys.mcgill.ca
Tom McConnell tmcconne@sedona.intel.com
Tod McQuillin mcquill@ccit05.duq.edu
Tye McQueen tye@spillman.com
Bernd Melchers melchers@chemie.fu-berlin.de
Jason Merrill jason@jarthur.claremont.edu
Dean S. Messing deanm@medulla.labs.tek.com
M. Mesturino mesturino@cselt.stet.it
Luke Mewburn zak@rmit.edu.au
Jim Meyering meyering@cs.utexas.edu
Frederic Miserey none.fred@applelink.apple.com
Marcel J.E. Mol marcel@duteca.et.tudelft.nl
Soren Juul Moller sjm@dde.dk
Chris Moore moore@src.bae.co.uk
Helmut Muelner hmuelner@fiicmds04.tu-graz.ac.at
Urban D Mueller umueller@amiga.physik.unizh.ch
Timothy Murphy tim@maths.tcd.ie
Greg Naber greg@squally.halcyon.com
Jay Nayegandhi jayng@bbiv02.enet.dec.com
Karl L. Noell noell@informatik.fh-wiesbaden.dbp.de
Arthur David Olson ado@elsie.nci.nih.gov
Piet van Oostrum piet@cs.ruu.nl
Rafael R. Pappalardo rafapa@obelix.cica.es
Yves Perrenoud pyves@nuga.alphanet.ch
Hal Peterson hrp@pecan.cray.com
Pascal Petit petit@cadillac.ibp.fr
Bruno Pillard bp@chorus.fr
Franc,ois Pinard pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
Jay Pinkos pinkos@butyng.bu.edu
Thomas Plass thomas@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Mike Polo mikep@cfsmo.honeywell.com
Francesco Potorti pot@fly.cnuce.cnr.it
David Purves purves@apogee.com
Andreas Raab ar@nvmr.robin.de
Eric S. Raymond esr@snark.thyrsus.com
Klaus Reimann kr@cip.physik.uni-stuttgart.de
Michael Rendell michael@mercury.cs.mun.ca
Hal Render render@massive.uccs.edu
Julian F. Reschke julian@math.uni-muenster.de
Phil Richards Phil.Richards@prg.oxford.ac.uk
Roland B Roberts roberts@nsrl31.nsrl.rochester.edu
Arnold Robbins arnold@cc.gatech.edu
Kevin Rodgers kevin@rolling-stone.den.mmc.com
Kai Uwe Rommel rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Paul Rubin phr@america.telebit.com
Wolfgang Rupprecht wolfgang@wsrcc.com
Jonathan Ryshpan jon@amito.hitachi.com
Tony Sanders sanders@bsdi.com
Mike Sangrey mike@sojurn.lns.pa.us
Niimi Satoshi a01309@cfi.waseda.ac.jp
Marc Schaefer sysadm@alphanet.ch
Andreas Schwab schwab@lamothe.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
Eric Schenk schenk@cs.toronto.edu
Sunando Sen sens@fasecon.econ.nyu.edu
Rick Sladkey jrs@world.std.com
Daniel L Smith dls@autodesk.com
Fred Smith fredex%fcshome@merk.merk.com
Stephen Soliday soliday@ncat.edu
Paul Southworth pauls@css.itd.umich.edu
Rob Spencer robbie@winkle.bhpese.oz.au
Richard Stallman rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Carsten Steger carsten.steger@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
David Sundstrom sunds@anon.asic.sc.ti.com
Ed Sznyter ews@babel.babel.com
Hideaki Tanabe arctanx@iyeyasu.ynl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Andrew Telford ajt@peregrin.resmel.bhp.com.au
Glenn E. Thobe thobe@getunx.info.com
Kei Thomsen kt@keihh.hanse.de
Karsten Thygesen karthy@dannug.dk
Mark Towfiq towfiq@microdyne.com
Jeff Treece treece@sabbagh.com
Oliver Trepte oliver@ikaros.fysik4.kth.se
Stephane Tsacas slt@is21.isoft.fr
Stephen Tweedie sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk
Sotiris Vassilopoulos vassilopoulos@virginia.edu
Pedro A. M. Vazquez vazquez@iqm.unicamp.br
Arjan de Vet devet@win.tue.nl
Vadim V. Vlasov vvlasov@inucres.msk.su
Eduard Vopicka eduard.vopicka@vse.cs
Theo Vosse vosse@ruls41.leidenuniv.nl
Marcel Waldvogel marcel@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch
Stephen J. Walick steve@nshore.org
Gray Watson gray@antaire.com
Scott Weikart scott@igc.apc.org
Ivo Welch iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu
Jochen Wiedmann zrawi01@zmcipdec1.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de
Gijsb. Wiesenekker wiesenecker@sara.nl
Wietze van Winden wietze@swi.psy.uva.nl
Larry W. Virden lwv26@cas.org
Bill Wohler wohler@sap-ag.de
Jamie Zawinski jwz@lucid.com
Christos Zoulas christos@deshaw.com
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