uc2 3.0.0a4__tar.gz

uc2-3.0.0a4/.gitattributes

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+# Preserve CRLF line endings in original DOS sources
+original/UC2_source/** -text
+original/UC2_source/**/*.exe binary
+original/UC2_source/**/*.DAT binary
+original/UC2_source/**/*.LIB binary
+original/UC2_source/**/*.PRJ binary
+
+# Test corpus and archives must be byte-exact
+tests/corpus/** binary
+tests/archives/** binary

uc2-3.0.0a4/.gitignore

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+# Build
+build/
+build-*/
+cmake-build-*/
+
+# CTest run outputs (when ctest is invoked outside of build/)
+Testing/
+
+# Python bytecode
+__pycache__/
+*.pyc
+dist/
+wheelhouse/
+*.egg-info/
+.pytest_cache/
+
+# Docs build
+docs/_build/
+
+# IDE
+.idea/
+.vscode/
+*.swp
+*~
+
+# OS
+.DS_Store
+Thumbs.db
+
+# Generated outreach draft (produced by scripts/gen-bboard-post.sh)
+bboard-post.draft.txt
+
+# Original downloads
+original/*.zip
+
+# Build artifacts in preserved originals
+original/unuc2-0.6/*.o
+original/unuc2-0.6/*.a
+original/unuc2-0.6/unuc2

uc2-3.0.0a4/CMakeLists.txt

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+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.16)
+project(UC2
+    VERSION 3.0.0
+    DESCRIPTION "UltraCompressor II — cross-platform revival"
+    LANGUAGES C ASM
+)
+
+include(cmake/UC2Platform.cmake)
+
+option(UC2_BUILD_PYTHON "Build the Python reader extension and bundled CLI" OFF)
+set(UC2_VERSION_LABEL "${PROJECT_VERSION}" CACHE STRING "Version displayed by the CLI")
+if(UC2_BUILD_PYTHON AND MSVC)
+    # Standalone CLI downloads must not require a separately installed VC runtime.
+    set(CMAKE_MSVC_RUNTIME_LIBRARY "MultiThreaded")
+endif()
+
+add_subdirectory(lib)
+add_subdirectory(cli)
+add_subdirectory(contrib/libarchive)
+add_subdirectory(contrib/totalcommander)
+if(UC2_BUILD_PYTHON)
+    add_subdirectory(python)
+endif()
+
+option(UC2_BUILD_TESTS "Build tests" ON)
+if(UC2_BUILD_TESTS AND NOT DJGPP)
+    enable_testing()
+    add_subdirectory(tests)
+endif()

uc2-3.0.0a4/CREDITS.md

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+# Credits
+
+## Original UltraCompressor II
+
+**Nico de Vries** created UltraCompressor II (1992--1996), a DOS archiver
+with LZ77+Huffman compression, master-block deduplication, and file
+versioning.  The original source code is preserved in `original/UC2_source/`.
+
+- Website: <https://nicodevries.com/professional/>
+
+## 2015 LGPL Source Release
+
+In December 2015, **Vladislav Sagunov** asked Nico de Vries whether
+the UC2 source could be re-released under a free licence.  De Vries
+agreed and personally re-published the full UC2 source under the GNU
+LGPL-3.0 (with a small Borland C/C++ runtime carve-out for DOS-specific
+code).  The release notes are preserved verbatim in
+`original/UC2_source/Read Me First.txt`.
+
+## Portable Decompressor (unuc2 / libunuc2)
+
+**Jan Bobrowski** wrote a clean-room portable decompressor (2020--2021) that
+forms the foundation of this project's decompression engine.  The library
+(`libunuc2`) is licensed under LGPL-3.0; the CLI tool (`unuc2`) is licensed
+under GPL-3.0-or-later.
+
+The following files in this repository derive directly from Bobrowski's
+work and retain his licence (see `docs/license-audit.md` for the full
+provenance table):
+
+- `lib/src/decompress.c` (LGPL-3.0-only)  --  derived from `libunuc2.c`
+- `lib/src/list.h` (LGPL-3.0-only)  --  byte-identical to upstream
+- `lib/include/uc2/libuc2.h` (LGPL-3.0-only)  --  derived from `libunuc2.h`
+- `cli/src/main.c` (GPL-3.0-or-later)  --  derived from `unuc2.c`,
+  with substantial additions for archive creation, OTS, and benchmarking
+- `contrib/totalcommander/uc2_wcx.c` (LGPL-3.0-only), adapted from the WCX prototype
+- `cli/src/compat/compat_win32.c` (LGPL-3.0-only)
+- `cli/src/compat/compat_dos.c` (LGPL-3.0-only, DOS adaptation by Valetov)
+
+The SuperMaster dictionary (`lib/src/super.bin`) is bit-identical to the
+copy shipped in `original/unuc2-0.6/` and to the data extracted from
+de Vries's 1992 binaries.
+
+- Website: <http://torinak.com/~jb/unuc2/>
+- Original source preserved in `original/unuc2-0.6/`
+
+## Additional Contributors
+
+- **Danny Bezemer**  --  co-authored UC2 with de Vries during the
+  original 1992-1996 development.
+- **Jan-Pieter Cornet**  --  early testing, archive samples, and format
+  documentation contributions to the unuc2 project.
+
+## UC2 v3.0.0 Revival
+
+**Eremey Valetov**  --  project revival, including:
+
+- CMake build system and cross-platform porting (Linux, macOS, MSVC, DJGPP)
+- LZ77+Huffman compression engine (compatible with original UC2 Pro)
+- rANS entropy coder (method 10, levels 6--9)
+- Content-defined chunking (CDC) with Gear rolling hash
+- Merkle DAG content addressing
+- Cross-archive block store for shared deduplication
+- SimHash near-duplicate detection
+- Delta compression for binary patching
+- Content-aware preprocessing (BCJ, BWT, delta filter)
+- LZ4 ultra-fast compression
+- BLAKE3 cryptographic hashing
+- SHA-256 (FIPS 180-4) implementation
+- OpenTimestamps integration (proof parser, walker, archive trailer)
+- Dictionary metadata for cross-archive sharing
+- Backward compatibility with original UC2 Pro (verified via DOSBox-X)
+- Automated test infrastructure (19 unit tests, DOSBox-X cross-tool testing)
+
+New core modules are licensed GPL-3.0-or-later by Eremey Valetov (2026).
+The libarchive adapter and independently written integration glue are
+dual-licensed GPL-3.0-or-later OR BSD-2-Clause. Derived files retain their
+upstream licenses.  See `docs/license-audit.md` for the per-file
+provenance table and the LGPL-3.0 / GPL-3.0 chain rationale.
+
+- GitHub: <https://github.com/evvaletov/uc2>