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Josh Coalsonc2fb0b32001-06-08 00:12:28 +00001/* FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec
Erik de Castro Lopob1982fb2013-05-25 17:11:19 +10002 * Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Josh Coalson
3 * Copyright (C) 2011-2013 Xiph.Org Foundation
Josh Coalsonc2fb0b32001-06-08 00:12:28 +00004 *
Josh Coalsone8a76012003-02-07 00:14:32 +00005 * This file is part the FLAC project. FLAC is comprised of several
Ulrich Klauercd4ddab2013-05-26 22:53:43 +02006 * components distributed under different licenses. The codec libraries
Josh Coalsone8a76012003-02-07 00:14:32 +00007 * are distributed under Xiph.Org's BSD-like license (see the file
8 * COPYING.Xiph in this distribution). All other programs, libraries, and
9 * plugins are distributed under the GPL (see COPYING.GPL). The documentation
10 * is distributed under the Gnu FDL (see COPYING.FDL). Each file in the
11 * FLAC distribution contains at the top the terms under which it may be
12 * distributed.
Josh Coalsonc2fb0b32001-06-08 00:12:28 +000013 *
Josh Coalsone8a76012003-02-07 00:14:32 +000014 * Since this particular file is relevant to all components of FLAC,
15 * it may be distributed under the Xiph.Org license, which is the least
16 * restrictive of those mentioned above. See the file COPYING.Xiph in this
17 * distribution.
Josh Coalsonc2fb0b32001-06-08 00:12:28 +000018 */
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Erik de Castro Lopo1f7c0852014-06-27 20:11:18 +100020Current FLAC maintainer: Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd@mega-nerd.com>
Josh Coalsonc2fb0b32001-06-08 00:12:28 +000021
Erik de Castro Lopo1f7c0852014-06-27 20:11:18 +100022Original author: Josh Coalson <jcoalson@users.sourceforge.net>
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24Website : https://www.xip.org/flac/
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26FLAC is an Open Source lossless audio codec originally developed by Josh Coalson
27between 2001 and 2009. From 2009 to 2012 FLAC was basically unmaintained. In
Erik de Castro Lopo804dc502014-06-28 09:52:52 +1000282012 the Erik de Castro Lopo became the chief maintainer as part of the
Erik de Castro Lopo1f7c0852014-06-27 20:11:18 +100029Xiph.Org Foundation.
Josh Coalsonc2fb0b32001-06-08 00:12:28 +000030
31Other major contributors and their contributions:
Erik de Castro Lopo1f7c0852014-06-27 20:11:18 +100032
Erik de Castro Lopo804dc502014-06-28 09:52:52 +100033"lvqcl" <lvqcl@users.sourceforge.net>
Erik de Castro Lopo1f7c0852014-06-27 20:11:18 +100034* Visual Studio build system.
35* Optimisations in the encoder and decoder.
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37"Janne Hyvärinen" <cse@sci.fi>
38* Visual Studio build system.
39* Unicode handling on Windows.
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Josh Coalsonae4ed272001-07-16 21:12:48 +000041"Andrey Astafiev" <andrei@tvcell.ru>
42* Russian translation of the HTML documentation
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Josh Coalsonfefe9492005-02-01 01:47:45 +000044"Miroslav Lichvar" <lichvarm@phoenix.inf.upol.cz>
Josh Coalsonc2fb0b32001-06-08 00:12:28 +000045* IA-32 assembly versions of several libFLAC routines
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Josh Coalsonade92342002-07-19 05:35:30 +000047"Brady Patterson" <bpat@users.sourceforge.net>
Josh Coalson6013f4e2004-07-28 04:04:23 +000048* AIFF file support, PPC assembly versions of libFLAC routines
Josh Coalsonade92342002-07-19 05:35:30 +000049
Josh Coalson55edea62002-07-12 05:39:24 +000050"Daisuke Shimamura" <Daisuke_Shimamura@nifty.com>
Josh Coalsone31d9eb2004-09-28 00:23:57 +000051* i18n support in the XMMS plugin
Josh Coalson55edea62002-07-12 05:39:24 +000052
Josh Coalson15ca0da2003-01-15 06:51:54 +000053"X-Fixer" <x-fixer@narod.ru>
54* Configuration system, tag editing, and file info in the Winamp2 plugin
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Josh Coalsonc2fb0b32001-06-08 00:12:28 +000056"Matt Zimmerman" <mdz@debian.org>
Josh Coalsonbc869502002-06-14 06:36:16 +000057* Libtool/autoconf/automake make system, flac man page
Josh Coalsonc2fb0b32001-06-08 00:12:28 +000058