| /* FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec |
| * Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Josh Coalson |
| * Copyright (C) 2011-2014 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.xiph.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 |
| |
