Mark Adler | for developing the zlib library |
Thomas Boutell | for the idea of creating the PNG image format (it's all his fault!) |
Adam M. Costello | for co-developing cexcept, an exception-handling interface for C |
Jean-loup Gailly | for devising a patent-free deflation algorithm and for developing the zlib library |
Phil Katz | for inventing ZIP (PKZip) and the deflation algorithm |
David Koblas | GIF support is derived from the giftopnm tool |
Miyasaka Masaru | BMP support is derived from the bmptopng tool |
David Salomon | for writing the most comprehensive data compression reference book |
Jason Summers | image reductions are inspired from the pngrewrite tool |
Glenn Randers-Pehrson | OptiPNG is inspired from the pngcrush tool(!) |
The PNG Development Group | for developing the PNG format and the libpng library and also for countless help via the emailing list :-) |
The Information Theory founders | Shannon, Huffman, Ziv, Lempel et al., you will never be forgotten! |
Peter Ahlstrom | for experimenting with the zlib parameters, and for providing useful test data |
Emmanuel Andry | for maintaining the Mandriva Linux port |
Piotr Bandurski | for maintaining the Amiga port, and for suggesting a feature improvement |
Fabien Barbier | for fixing a Unicode build issue on Windows |
Fabrizio Bartoloni | for maintaining the MorphOS port |
Pascal Bleser | for maintaining the SUSE Linux port |
Stefan Brüns | for contributing a security fix |
James Buren | for maintaining the Frugalware Linux port |
Adam Ciarcinski | for maintaining the pkgsrc package |
James H. Cloos, Jr. | for being the first user to report a defect |
Christian Davideck | for reporting a defect |
Andrew C. E. Dent | for experimenting with various compression parameters, and for providing useful test data |
Matthew Fearnley | for reporting several defects and limitations, and for contributing a reduction improvement |
Petr Gajdos | for maintaining the SUSE Linux port |
Nicolas Le Gland | for reporting a defect |
Tero Grundström | for reporting a build problem |
Larry Hastings | for suggesting a performance improvement, for reporting a defect, and for providing useful test data |
Tristan Heaven | for maintaining the Gentoo Linux port |
Jukka Heino | for maintaining the Crux Linux port |
Max Horn | for maintaining the Mac OS X (Fink) port |
Thomas Hurst | for maintaining the FreeBSD port |
Joachim Kluge | for reporting a defect |
Bill Koch | for reporting a defect |
Niels de Koning | for contributing memory leak fixes |
Michael Krishtopa | for reporting a defect |
Vincent Lefevre | for maintaining the Mac OS X DarwinPort, and for suggesting a feature |
Vitaly Lipatov | for maintaining the ALT Linux port |
Alexander Lucas | for suggesting a feature |
Till Maas | for maintaining the Fedora Linux port, and for valuable contributions and feedback |
Brian McQuade | for contributing a security fix |
Nehal Mistry | for suggesting various features |
Dirk Mueller | for maintaining the SUSE Linux port |
Gustavo De Nardin | for maintaining the Mandriva Linux port |
Nelson A. de Oliveira | for maintaining the Debian Linux port, and for valuable contributions and feedback |
Tavis Ormandy | for maintaining the Gentoo Linux port |
Martin Packman | for reporting a defect |
Dimitri Papadopoulos | for reporting a defect |
Aaron Reitz | for reporting a platform-specific build problem |
Ryan Schenk | for writing PNGpong, a Dashboard widget for Mac OS X |
Ville Skyttä | for maintaining the Fedora Linux port |
Roy Tam | for reporting a defect |
Juhapekka Tolvanen | for suggesting various script improvements |
Dmitry Vlasko | for writing a configurable Windows shell integration utility |
Funda Wang | for maintaining the Mandriva Linux port |
Liang Zhao | for reporting a platform-specific build problem |
[akJ] | for writing an Eclipse RCP utility |
[amake] | for writing pngcrusher, a Mac OS X front-end |
[Baldelario] | for maintaining the Slackware Linux port |
[I Like Pi] | for writing a configurable Paint.NET plugin |
[LaughingMan] | for suggesting a feature, and for reporting a defect |
[warriant] | for suggesting the use of UPX to pack the Windows executable |