diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
index 1d35f10ec3b2..85c7c70b7044 100644
--- a/CREDITS
+++ b/CREDITS
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ S: C. Negri 6, bl. D3
 S: Iasi 6600
 S: Romania
 
+N: Mark Adler
+E: madler@alumni.caltech.edu
+W: http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~madler/
+D: zlib decompression
+
 N: Monalisa Agrawal
 E: magrawal@nortelnetworks.com
 D: Basic Interphase 5575 driver with UBR and ABR support.
diff --git a/lib/zlib_inflate/inftrees.c b/lib/zlib_inflate/inftrees.c
index 62343c53bf7e..da665fbb16aa 100644
--- a/lib/zlib_inflate/inftrees.c
+++ b/lib/zlib_inflate/inftrees.c
@@ -8,15 +8,6 @@
 
 #define MAXBITS 15
 
-const char inflate_copyright[] =
-   " inflate 1.2.3 Copyright 1995-2005 Mark Adler ";
-/*
-  If you use the zlib library in a product, an acknowledgment is welcome
-  in the documentation of your product. If for some reason you cannot
-  include such an acknowledgment, I would appreciate that you keep this
-  copyright string in the executable of your product.
- */
-
 /*
    Build a set of tables to decode the provided canonical Huffman code.
    The code lengths are lens[0..codes-1].  The result starts at *table,