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  1. LAME 3.xx
  2. LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder
  3. http://lame.sf.net
  4. May 2011
  5. Originally developed by Mike Cheng (www.uq.net.au/~zzmcheng) and was
  6. latter developed by Mark Taylor (www.mp3dev.org). Currently maintained
  7. by The LAME Project.
  8. This code is distributed under the GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
  9. (LGPL, see www.gnu.org), version 2.
  10. As LAME may contain software for which some companies may claim software
  11. patents, if you are in a location where software patents are recognized, it is
  12. suggested that you seek legal advice before deploying and/or redistributing
  13. LAME.
  14. In particular, it is suggested to visit
  15. http://www.mp3licensing.com/
  16. if it applies to your jurisdiction.
  17. ============================================================================
  18. see the file "INSTALL" for installation (compiling) instructions.
  19. see the file "USAGE" for the most up-to-date guide to the command line options.
  20. see the file "LICENSE" for details on how to use LAME in non-GPL programs.
  21. see the file "HACKING" if you are interested in working on LAME
  22. see the file "API" for details of the LAME encoding library API
  23. There is HTML documentation and a man page in the doc directory.
  24. ============================================================================
  25. LAME uses the MPGLIB decoding engine, from the mpg123 package, written
  26. by: Michael Hipp (www.mpg123.de) MPGLIB is released under the GPL.
  27. Copyrights (c) 1999-2011 by The LAME Project
  28. Copyrights (c) 1999,2000,2001 by Mark Taylor
  29. Copyrights (c) 1998 by Michael Cheng
  30. Copyrights (c) 1995,1996,1997 by Michael Hipp: mpglib
  31. As well as additional copyrights as documented in the source code.