# Data Compression Library (zlib)

zlib is a general purpose data compression library.

Optionally used in Qt Core and and development tools. Configure with -system-zlib to avoid.

The sources can be found in qtbase/src/3rdparty/zlib.

Project Homepage, upstream version: 1.2.5

    (C) 1995-2010 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler

ZLib license.

    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

    If you use the zlib library in a product, we would appreciate *not* receiving
    lengthy legal documents to sign.  The sources are provided for free but without
    warranty of any kind.  The library has been entirely written by Jean-loup
    Gailly and Mark Adler; it does not include third-party code.

    If you redistribute modified sources, we would appreciate that you include in
    the file ChangeLog history information documenting your changes.  Please read
    the FAQ for more information on the distribution of modified source versions.