/* FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec
 * Copyright (C) 2001-2009  Josh Coalson
 * Copyright (C) 2011-2013  Xiph.Org Foundation
 *
 * This file is part the FLAC project.  FLAC is comprised of several
 * components distributed under different licenses.  The codec libraries
 * are distributed under Xiph.Org's BSD-like license (see the file
 * COPYING.Xiph in this distribution).  All other programs, libraries, and
 * plugins are distributed under the GPL (see COPYING.GPL).  The documentation
 * is distributed under the Gnu FDL (see COPYING.FDL).  Each file in the
 * FLAC distribution contains at the top the terms under which it may be
 * distributed.
 *
 * Since this particular file is relevant to all components of FLAC,
 * it may be distributed under the Xiph.Org license, which is the least
 * restrictive of those mentioned above.  See the file COPYING.Xiph in this
 * distribution.
 */

Current FLAC maintainer: Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd@mega-nerd.com>

Original author: Josh Coalson <jcoalson@users.sourceforge.net>

Website : https://www.xip.org/flac/

FLAC is an Open Source lossless audio codec originally developed by Josh Coalson
between 2001 and 2009. From 2009 to 2012 FLAC was basically unmaintained. In
2012 the Erik de Castro Lopo became the chief maintainer as part of the
Xiph.Org Foundation.

Other major contributors and their contributions:

"lvqcl" <lvqcl@users.sourceforge.net>
* Visual Studio build system.
* Optimisations in the encoder and decoder.

"Janne Hyvärinen" <cse@sci.fi>
* Visual Studio build system.
* Unicode handling on Windows.

"Andrey Astafiev" <andrei@tvcell.ru>
* Russian translation of the HTML documentation

"Miroslav Lichvar" <lichvarm@phoenix.inf.upol.cz>
* IA-32 assembly versions of several libFLAC routines

"Brady Patterson" <bpat@users.sourceforge.net>
* AIFF file support, PPC assembly versions of libFLAC routines

"Daisuke Shimamura" <Daisuke_Shimamura@nifty.com>
* i18n support in the XMMS plugin

"X-Fixer" <x-fixer@narod.ru>
* Configuration system, tag editing, and file info in the Winamp2 plugin

"Matt Zimmerman" <mdz@debian.org>
* Libtool/autoconf/automake make system, flac man page