1 LAME 3.xx 2 LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder 3 http://lame.sf.net 4 May 2011 5 6Originally developed by Mike Cheng (www.uq.net.au/~zzmcheng) and was 7latter developed by Mark Taylor (www.mp3dev.org). Currently maintained 8by The LAME Project. 9 10This code is distributed under the GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE 11(LGPL, see www.gnu.org), version 2. 12 13As LAME may contain software for which some companies may claim software 14patents, if you are in a location where software patents are recognized, it is 15suggested that you seek legal advice before deploying and/or redistributing 16LAME. 17 18In particular, it is suggested to visit 19 20 http://www.mp3licensing.com/ 21 22if it applies to your jurisdiction. 23 24============================================================================ 25 26see the file "INSTALL" for installation (compiling) instructions. 27see the file "USAGE" for the most up-to-date guide to the command line options. 28see the file "LICENSE" for details on how to use LAME in non-GPL programs. 29see the file "HACKING" if you are interested in working on LAME 30see the file "API" for details of the LAME encoding library API 31 32There is HTML documentation and a man page in the doc directory. 33 34============================================================================ 35 36LAME uses the MPGLIB decoding engine, from the mpg123 package, written 37by: Michael Hipp (www.mpg123.de) MPGLIB is released under the GPL. 38 39Copyrights (c) 1999-2011 by The LAME Project 40Copyrights (c) 1999,2000,2001 by Mark Taylor 41Copyrights (c) 1998 by Michael Cheng 42Copyrights (c) 1995,1996,1997 by Michael Hipp: mpglib 43 44As well as additional copyrights as documented in the source code. 45