README

PROJECT
  The zziplib provides read access to zipped files in a zip-archive,
  using compression based solely on free algorithms provided by zlib.
  It also provides a functionality to overlay the archive filesystem
  with the filesystem of the operating system environment.

AUTHOR
  The project was originally written by Tomi Ollila, later largely
  rewritten by Guido Draheim, and extended with contributions in
  the years to follow. Guido Draheim <guidod@gmx.de> holds the full
  copyright to the zziplib sources.

COPYING
  The zziplib may be used freely under the restrictions of the
  GNU Lesser General Public License version 2 or later. Alternatively
  the Mozilla Public license can be chosen. The sources are under
  a dual license, as long as the MPL hint is not removed, the modified
  files will be again under a dual license for the final recipient.

LICENSING
  If you can not use a dynalinked library according to LGPL rules,
  then look at docs/copying.htm for a few hints. Generally the LGPL 
  has a way for staticlinking as well as the MPL has a way. Anyway,
  special (paid) licenses can be negotiated with the copyright holder.

HOMEPAGE
  The zziplib project has moved to GitHub where you can find the 
  last release tags now => https://github.com/gdraheim/zziplib
  The zziplib project was originally hosted at SourceForge with
  the documentation at http://zziplib.sf.net - this is a bit
  outdated but the API has not changed much since then. To get
  the latest release announcements, watch the GitHub project.

INSTALLATION
  The zziplib sources are built with cmake. This allows to build it
  easily with make / ninja on unixish systems via the usual sequence of
  `cmake3 && make && make check && make install`. Many distributors
  ship prebuilt packages e.g. in rpm format. Additionally cmake allows
  to generate MSVC project files - the old ones will be dropped soon.
  There should be no problem either when crosscompiling the zziplib 
  for a third host platform.

MAINTENANCE
  The zziplib library is intentionally a lightweight interface to
  zip files. The author take patches but please consider to put 
  complex extensions into separate modules rather than implanting them
  right into the core of the library engine. All Patches and Bug Reports
  should be sent to Guido Draheim <guidod@gmx.de>.