* * This file is part the FLAC project. FLAC is comprised of several * components distributed under difference 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. */
FLAC (http://flac.sourceforge.net/) is an Open Source lossless audio
codec developed by Josh Coalson <jcoalson@users.sourceforge.net>.
Other major contributors and their contributions:
"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