build: switch source archive to xz compression
And a few minor README improvements
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The following lists maintainers, primary developers, and all much-appreciated contributors to NFD in alphabetical order.
The specific contributions of individual authors can be obtained from the git history of the [official NFD repository](https://github.com/named-data/NFD).
-If you would like to become a contributor to the official repository, please follow the recommendations in <https://github.com/named-data/.github/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md>.
+If you would like to become a contributor to the official repository, please follow the recommendations in <https://github.com/named-data/.github/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md>.
* Jerald Paul Abraham <https://cs.arizona.edu/~jeraldabraham>
* ***(Maintainer)*** Alexander Afanasyev <https://users.cs.fiu.edu/~afanasyev>