2 The zziplib provides read access to zipped files in a zip-archive,
3 using compression based solely on free algorithms provided by zlib.
4 It also provides a functionality to overlay the archive filesystem
5 with the filesystem of the operating system environment.
8 The project was originally written by Tomi Ollila, later largely
9 rewritten by Guido Draheim, and extended with contributions in
10 the years to follow. Guido Draheim <guidod@gmx.de> holds the full
11 copyright to the zziplib sources.
14 The zziplib may be used freely under the restrictions of the
15 GNU Lesser General Public License version 2 or later. Alternativly
16 the Mozilla Public license can be chosen. The sources are under
17 a dual license, as long as the MPL hint is not removed, the modified
18 files will be again under a dual license for the final recipient.
21 If you can not use a dynalinked library according to LGPL rules,
22 then look at docs/copying.htm for a few hints. Generally the LGPL
23 has a way for staticlinking as well as the MPL has a way. Anyway,
24 special (paid) licenses can be negotiated with the copyright holder.
27 The zziplib project is hosted at SourceForge, the complete
28 documentation can be found at http://zziplib.sf.net - the
29 SourceForge servers are also used to distribute the sources
30 of the zziplib project. Releases are announced via the
31 freshmeat services on http://freshmeat.net/projects/zziplib
34 The zziplib sources are built with gnu autotools and they should
35 be easy to install on unixish systems via the usual sequence of
36 `configure && make && make check && make install`. Many distributors
37 ship prebuilt packages e.g. in rpm format. Additionally there are
38 MSVC project files shipped along for usage with the Microsoft
39 VisualC series of compilers. There should be no problem either
40 when crosscompiling the zziplib for a third host platform.
43 The zziplib library is intentionally a lightweight interface to
44 zip files. The author take patches but please consider to put
45 complex extensions into separate modules rather than implanting them
46 right into the core of the library engine. All Patches and Bug Reports
47 should be sent to Guido Draheim <guidod@gmx.de>.