Definitions for "zlib "
Keywords:  libpng, gailly, adler, loup, gzip
zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered, lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer hardware and operating system. The zlib data format is itself portable across platforms. Unlike the LZW compression method used in Unix compress, the compression method currently used in zlib essentially never expands the data.
Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler and is an abstraction of the DEFLATE compression algorithm used in their gzip file compression program. The first public version, 0.9, was released on May 1, 1995 and was originally intended for use with libpng image library. zlib is distributed under the zlib license.