Add more javadoc to the project
Make the DaemonThreadFactory available for subclasses
Make the travis status the first line
Add more content to the README file
Replace the negative compression option by a positive one

nocompression doesn't make sense, it should be the compression option.
Enable some options by default

Instead of checking if the option is set, check that it isn't set to "false".
This way the option is enabled by default.