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Bzip2

This Bzip2/libbz2, a program and library for lossless, block-sorting data compression.

Copyright (C) 1996-2010 Julian Seward jseward@acm.org

Copyright (C) 2019 Federico Mena Quintero federico@gnome.org

Please read the WARNING, DISCLAIMER and PATENTS sections in this file for important information.

This program is released under the terms of the license contained in the file COPYING.


This version is fully compatible with the previous public releases.

Complete documentation is available in Postscript form (manual.ps), PDF (manual.pdf) or HTML (manual.html). A plain-text version of the manual page is available as bzip2.txt.

Contributing to Bzip2's development

There is a code of conduct for contributors to Bzip2/libbz2; please see the file code-of-conduct.md.

Bzip2's source repository is at gitlab.com. You can view the web interface here:

https://gitlab.com/federicomenaquintero/bzip2

Maintenance happens in the master branch. There is an effort to port Bzip2 gradually to Rust in a rustify branch.

To report bugs, or to view existing reports, please do so in Bzip2's repository as well.

Compiling Bzip2 and libbz2

Please see the COMPILING.md file for details. This includes instructions for buliding using Meson, CMake, or nmake.

WARNING

This program and library (attempts to) compress data by performing several non-trivial transformations on it. Unless you are 100% familiar with all the algorithms contained herein, and with the consequences of modifying them, you should NOT meddle with the compression or decompression machinery. Incorrect changes can and very likely will lead to disastrous loss of data.

Please contact the maintainers if you want to modify the algorithms.

DISCLAIMER

I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY LOSS OF DATA ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS PROGRAM/LIBRARY, HOWSOEVER CAUSED.

Every compression of a file implies an assumption that the compressed file can be decompressed to reproduce the original. Great efforts in design, coding and testing have been made to ensure that this program works correctly. However, the complexity of the algorithms, and, in particular, the presence of various special cases in the code which occur with very low but non-zero probability make it impossible to rule out the possibility of bugs remaining in the program. DO NOT COMPRESS ANY DATA WITH THIS PROGRAM UNLESS YOU ARE PREPARED TO ACCEPT THE POSSIBILITY, HOWEVER SMALL, THAT THE DATA WILL NOT BE RECOVERABLE.

That is not to say this program is inherently unreliable. Indeed, I very much hope the opposite is true. Bzip2/libbz2 has been carefully constructed and extensively tested.

PATENTS

To the best of my knowledge, Bzip2/libbz2 does not use any patented algorithms. However, I do not have the resources to carry out a patent search. Therefore I cannot give any guarantee of the above statement.

Maintainers

Since June 2019, the maintainer of Bzip2/libbz2 is Federico Mena Quintero. Feel free to contact me for any questions you may have about Bzip2, both its usage and its development. You can contact me in the following ways:

  • Mail me at federico@gnome.org.

  • IRC: I am federico on irc.gnome.org in the #rust or #gnome-hackers channels. I'm there most weekdays (Mon-Fri) starting at about UTC 14:00 (that's 08:00 my time; I am in the UTC-6 timezone). If this is not a convenient time for you, feel free to mail me and we can arrange a time.

Special thanks

Federico would like to thank Julian Seward, the original author of Bzip2/libbz2, for creating the program and making it a very compelling alternative to previous compression programs back in the early 2000's. Thanks to Julian also for letting Federico carry on with the maintainership of the program.