1159b3361Sopenharmony_ciThis package was originally made by Stefan Karrmann <S.Karrmann@gmx.net>
2159b3361Sopenharmony_cion Thu, 31 Aug 2000 22:15:07 +0200.
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4159b3361Sopenharmony_ciThe current maintainer is Rogério Brito <rbrito@users.sf.net>.
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6159b3361Sopenharmony_ciIt was downloaded from the CVS repository at <http://sf.net/projects/lame>.
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8159b3361Sopenharmony_ciUpstream Authors: The LAME team <lame-dev@lists.sf.net>.
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10159b3361Sopenharmony_ciCopyright © 1999-2009 The LAME team <lame-dev@lists.sf.net> and contributors.
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12159b3361Sopenharmony_ci    LAME is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
13159b3361Sopenharmony_ci    modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
14159b3361Sopenharmony_ci    License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
15159b3361Sopenharmony_ci    version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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17159b3361Sopenharmony_ci    LAME is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
18159b3361Sopenharmony_ci    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
19159b3361Sopenharmony_ci    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
20159b3361Sopenharmony_ci    Library General Public License for more details.
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22159b3361Sopenharmony_ci    You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
23159b3361Sopenharmony_ci    License along with this library; if not, write to the
24159b3361Sopenharmony_ci    Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston,
25159b3361Sopenharmony_ci    MA 02110-1301, USA.
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27159b3361Sopenharmony_ciAdditionally, the original software's LICENCE file contains the following:
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30159b3361Sopenharmony_ciCan I use LAME in my commercial program?  
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32159b3361Sopenharmony_ciYes, you can, under the restrictions of the LGPL.  The easiest
33159b3361Sopenharmony_ciway to do this is to:
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35159b3361Sopenharmony_ci1. Link to LAME as separate library (libmp3lame.a on unix or 
36159b3361Sopenharmony_ci   lame_enc.dll on windows)
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38159b3361Sopenharmony_ci2. Fully acknowledge that you are using LAME, and give a link
39159b3361Sopenharmony_ci   to our web site, https://lame.sourceforge.io/
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41159b3361Sopenharmony_ci3. If you make modifications to LAME, you *must* release these
42159b3361Sopenharmony_ci   these modifications back to the LAME project, under the LGPL.
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44159b3361Sopenharmony_ci*** IMPORTANT NOTE ***
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46159b3361Sopenharmony_ciThe decoding functions provided in LAME use the mpglib decoding engine which
47159b3361Sopenharmony_ciis under the GPL.  They may not be used by any program not released under the
48159b3361Sopenharmony_ciGPL unless you obtain such permission from the MPG123 project (www.mpg123.de).
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51159b3361Sopenharmony_ciOn Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU Library General Public
52159b3361Sopenharmony_ciLicense can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2'.
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54159b3361Sopenharmony_ciThe Debian packaging is © 2005-2009, Rogério Brito <rbrito@users.sf.net>
55159b3361Sopenharmony_ciand is licensed under the GPL, see above.
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