| Josh Coalson | c2fb0b3 | 2001-06-08 00:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | /* FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec |
| Erik de Castro Lopo | b1982fb | 2013-05-25 17:11:19 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | * Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Josh Coalson |
| Erik de Castro Lopo | 6a5fe43 | 2016-12-05 06:35:39 +1100 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | * Copyright (C) 2011-2016 Xiph.Org Foundation |
| Josh Coalson | c2fb0b3 | 2001-06-08 00:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | * |
| Josh Coalson | e8a7601 | 2003-02-07 00:14:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | * This file is part the FLAC project. FLAC is comprised of several |
| Ulrich Klauer | cd4ddab | 2013-05-26 22:53:43 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | * components distributed under different licenses. The codec libraries |
| Josh Coalson | e8a7601 | 2003-02-07 00:14:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | * 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 Coalson | c2fb0b3 | 2001-06-08 00:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | * |
| Josh Coalson | e8a7601 | 2003-02-07 00:14:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | * 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 Coalson | c2fb0b3 | 2001-06-08 00:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 18 | */ |
| 19 | |
| Erik de Castro Lopo | 1f7c085 | 2014-06-27 20:11:18 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | Current FLAC maintainer: Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd@mega-nerd.com> |
| Josh Coalson | c2fb0b3 | 2001-06-08 00:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | |
| Erik de Castro Lopo | 1f7c085 | 2014-06-27 20:11:18 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | Original author: Josh Coalson <jcoalson@users.sourceforge.net> |
| 23 | |
| Erik de Castro Lopo | 50262f5 | 2014-11-26 20:42:15 +1100 | [diff] [blame] | 24 | Website : https://www.xiph.org/flac/ |
| Erik de Castro Lopo | 1f7c085 | 2014-06-27 20:11:18 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 25 | |
| 26 | FLAC is an Open Source lossless audio codec originally developed by Josh Coalson |
| 27 | between 2001 and 2009. From 2009 to 2012 FLAC was basically unmaintained. In |
| Erik de Castro Lopo | 804dc50 | 2014-06-28 09:52:52 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | 2012 the Erik de Castro Lopo became the chief maintainer as part of the |
| Erik de Castro Lopo | 1f7c085 | 2014-06-27 20:11:18 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | Xiph.Org Foundation. |
| Josh Coalson | c2fb0b3 | 2001-06-08 00:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | |
| 31 | Other major contributors and their contributions: |
| Erik de Castro Lopo | 1f7c085 | 2014-06-27 20:11:18 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 32 | |
| Erik de Castro Lopo | 804dc50 | 2014-06-28 09:52:52 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 33 | "lvqcl" <lvqcl@users.sourceforge.net> |
| Erik de Castro Lopo | 1f7c085 | 2014-06-27 20:11:18 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 34 | * Visual Studio build system. |
| 35 | * Optimisations in the encoder and decoder. |
| 36 | |
| 37 | "Janne Hyvärinen" <cse@sci.fi> |
| 38 | * Visual Studio build system. |
| 39 | * Unicode handling on Windows. |
| 40 | |
| Josh Coalson | ae4ed27 | 2001-07-16 21:12:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 41 | "Andrey Astafiev" <andrei@tvcell.ru> |
| 42 | * Russian translation of the HTML documentation |
| 43 | |
| Josh Coalson | fefe949 | 2005-02-01 01:47:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 44 | "Miroslav Lichvar" <lichvarm@phoenix.inf.upol.cz> |
| Josh Coalson | c2fb0b3 | 2001-06-08 00:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 45 | * IA-32 assembly versions of several libFLAC routines |
| 46 | |
| Josh Coalson | ade9234 | 2002-07-19 05:35:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 47 | "Brady Patterson" <bpat@users.sourceforge.net> |
| Josh Coalson | 6013f4e | 2004-07-28 04:04:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 48 | * AIFF file support, PPC assembly versions of libFLAC routines |
| Josh Coalson | ade9234 | 2002-07-19 05:35:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 49 | |
| Josh Coalson | 55edea6 | 2002-07-12 05:39:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 50 | "Daisuke Shimamura" <Daisuke_Shimamura@nifty.com> |
| Josh Coalson | e31d9eb | 2004-09-28 00:23:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 51 | * i18n support in the XMMS plugin |
| Josh Coalson | 55edea6 | 2002-07-12 05:39:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 52 | |
| Josh Coalson | 15ca0da | 2003-01-15 06:51:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 53 | "X-Fixer" <x-fixer@narod.ru> |
| 54 | * Configuration system, tag editing, and file info in the Winamp2 plugin |
| 55 | |
| Josh Coalson | c2fb0b3 | 2001-06-08 00:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 56 | "Matt Zimmerman" <mdz@debian.org> |
| Josh Coalson | bc86950 | 2002-06-14 06:36:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 57 | * Libtool/autoconf/automake make system, flac man page |
| Josh Coalson | c2fb0b3 | 2001-06-08 00:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 58 | |