the actual compression/decompression algorithm is based on quicklz (http://www.quicklz.com)
	Copyright 2006, Lasse Reinhold (lar@quicklz.com)

codec idea based on by wereHamster - what's your full name, and email?
	Were Hamster <were at hamster tod org>

put it together into a single reusable library:
	Christian Parpart <trapni@gentoo.org>