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+/* FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec
+ * Copyright (C) 2001 Josh Coalson
+ *
+ * This program is part of FLAC; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+ * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+ */
+
+
+FLAC (http://flac.sourceforge.net/) is an Open Source lossless audio
+codec developed by Josh Coalson.
+
+Other major contributors and their contributions:
+"Miroslav Lichvar" <mirator@upcase.inf.upol.cz>
+* IA-32 assembly versions of several libFLAC routines
+
+"Matt Zimmerman" <mdz@debian.org>
+* Libtool/autoconf/automake make system
+