ZMAT is written by Qianqian Fang. Qianqian is currently an
Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at
Northeastern University.

Address: Dept. of Bioengineering
         Northeastern University
         360 Huntington Ave, ISEC 206, Boston, MA 02115, USA
URL: http://fanglab.org
Email: <q.fang at neu.edu>

ZMAT Website : https://neurojson.org/zmat
ZMAT PyPi: https://pypi.org/project/zmat
ZMAT Github Repository : https://github.com/NeuroJSON/zmat


ZMat bundles the below open-source data compression/encoding libraries

1. miniz: https://github.com/richgel999/miniz
  *  Copyright (c) 2013-2014 RAD Game Tools and Valve Software
  *  Copyright (c) 2010-2014 Rich Geldreich and Tenacious Software LLC
  *  License: MIT License (https://github.com/richgel999/miniz/blob/master/LICENSE)
2. Eazylzma: https://github.com/lloyd/easylzma
  *  Author: Lloyd Hilaiel (lloyd)
  *  License: public domain
3. Original LZMA library:
  *  Author: Igor Pavlov
  *  License: public domain
4. LZ4 library: https://lz4.github.io/lz4/
  *  Copyright (C) 2011-2019, Yann Collet.
  *  License: BSD 2-Clause License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php)
5. C-blosc2: https://blosc.org/
  *  Copyright (c) 2009-2018 Francesc Alted <francesc@blosc.org>
  *  Copyright (c) 2019-present The Blosc Development Team <blosc@blosc.org>
  *  License: BSD 3-Clause License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php)
6. ZStd: https://facebook.github.io/zstd/
  *  Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates. All rights reserved.
  *  License: BSD 3-Clause License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php)
7. base64_{encode,decode} functions in the zmat.cpp
  *  Copyright (c) 2005, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
  *  License: BSD 3-Clause License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php)
  *  Source http://web.mit.edu/freebsd/head/contrib/wpa/src/utils/base64.c and base64.h
