typo
only enable transparent gzip encoding when explicitly specified
fixes bugzilla issue 57048
we shouldn't try to follow the different directions apache.org is taking
closes #2 as it seems to be just somebody playing around with PRs
after all these years we still have some author tags left
patch by Vitold S: make runant.py deal with spaces in java's path.
fixes #1
add @vit1251 's full name to contributor list
add a github "contributing guide" based on the great work Benedikt
Ritter has done for Commons.