| This package was originally debianized by Stefan Karrmann <S.Karrmann@gmx.net> |
| on Thu, 31 Aug 2000 22:15:07 +0200. |
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| The current maintainer is Rogério Brito <rbrito@users.sf.net>. |
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| It was downloaded from the CVS repository at <http://sf.net/projects/lame>. |
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| Upstream Authors: please, see the file html/contributors.html for a |
| list of contributors to the lame project. |
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| Copyright: 1999-2010 see html/contributors.html |
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| LAME is free software; you can redistribute it and/or |
| modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public |
| License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either |
| version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. |
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| LAME is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
| but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
| MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU |
| Lesser General Public License for more details. |
| |
| You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public |
| License along with this library; if not, write to the |
| Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, |
| MA 02110-1301, USA. |
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| Additionally, the original software's LICENCE file contains the following: |
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| Can I use LAME in my commercial program? |
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| Yes, you can, under the restrictions of the LGPL. The easiest |
| way to do this is to: |
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| 1. Link to LAME as separate library (libmp3lame.a on unix or |
| lame_enc.dll on windows) |
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| 2. Fully acknowledge that you are using LAME, and give a link |
| to our web site, www.mp3dev.org |
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| 3. If you make modifications to LAME, you *must* release these |
| these modifications back to the LAME project, under the LGPL. |
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| *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** |
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| The decoding functions provided in LAME use the mpglib decoding engine which |
| is under the GPL. They may not be used by any program not released under the |
| GPL unless you obtain such permission from the MPG123 project (www.mpg123.de). |
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| On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU Library General Public |
| License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2'. |
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| The Debian packaging is Copyright © 2005-2010, Rogério Brito <rbrito@users.sf.net> |
| and is licensed under the same license as the upstream software. |
