Adding native LZW compression support.

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/lzw/README.md b/src/lzw/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e911946
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lzw/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+# Basics
+
+* HOMEPAGE: https://github.com/vapier/liblzw
+* BUGS:     https://github.com/vapier/liblzw/issues
+* AUTHOR:   Mike Frysinger <vapier@gmail.com>
+
+# About
+
+liblzw is a small library that provides an API for reading
+[LZW](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZW) compressed (.Z) files.  The API is
+similar to that of [zlib](http://www.zlib.net/) (for reading .gz files) and
+[libbzip2](http://www.bzip.org/) (for reading .bz2 files) which themselves
+are just like the classical UNIX functions for reading files
+(e.g. open/read/fopen/fread/etc...).
+
+The core compression code was taken from the canonical
+[ncompress](https://github.com/vapier/ncompress) program.
+
+# License
+
+Since the compression algorithms were ripped out of the public-domain package
+[ncompress](https://github.com/vapier/ncompress), liblzw has also been released
+into the public-domain for people to do with as they will. Just please send me
+bugfixes as you find them :).
+
+See the [UNLICENSE](UNLICENSE) file for more details.
+
+# Patents
+
+All existing patents on the LZW algorithm have
+[expired world-wide](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZW#Patent_issues).
+So LZW is now patent free.