NOTE (31 October 2003):

This is the faac-1.23.5 release plus the source code to libmp4v2 taken
from the faad-2.0 package, modified for better platform portability.
The configure scripts and makefiles have been modified so that the top
level build will build libmp4v2, libfaac and faac.  The frontend/faac
executable includes MP4 output capability via the -w command line
option.  The frontend/main.c and libmp4v2/mp4file.cpp files have also
been modified to accept the use of stdin and stdout as the input and
output if the respective file names are specified as '-'.

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FAAC is based on the ISO MPEG-4 reference code. For this base code the
following license applies:


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and edited by

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in the course of development of the MPEG-2 NBC/MPEG-4 Audio standard
ISO/IEC 13818-7, 14496-1,2 and 3. This software module is an
implementation of a part of one or more MPEG-2 NBC/MPEG-4 Audio tools
as specified by the MPEG-2 NBC/MPEG-4 Audio standard. ISO/IEC gives
users of the MPEG-2 NBC/MPEG-4 Audio standards free license to this
software module or modifications thereof for use in hardware or
software products claiming conformance to the MPEG-2 NBC/ MPEG-4 Audio
standards. Those intending to use this software module in hardware or
software products are advised that this use may infringe existing
patents. The original developer of this software module and his/her
company, the subsequent editors and their companies, and ISO/IEC have
no liability for use of this software module or modifications thereof
in an implementation. Copyright is not released for non MPEG-2
NBC/MPEG-4 Audio conforming products. The original developer retains
full right to use the code for his/her own purpose, assign or donate
the code to a third party and to inhibit third party from using the
code for non MPEG-2 NBC/MPEG-4 Audio conforming products. This
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Copyright (c) 1997.
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For the changes made for the FAAC project the GNU Library General
Public License (LGPL), version 2 1991 applies. For the changes the
following statement applies:

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FAAC - Freeware Advanced Audio Coder
Copyright (C) 2001 M. Bakker

This library 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 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library 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.

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License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
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Please note that the use of this software may require the payment of
patent royalties. You need to consider this issue before you start
building derivative works. We are not warranting or indemnifying you in
any way for patent royalities! YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN
ACTIONS!


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Currently maintained by
M. Bakker (menno@audiocoding.com).

Other contributors
Tony Lenox (len0x@mail.ru)
RageOMatic (rageamp@realedge.com)
thebard (wmilas@rarcoa.com)
Ivan Dimkovic (dim@psytel-research.co.yu)
Krzysztof Nikiel (knik)
Stuart Espey (stux@3ivx.com)
Janne Hyvärinen (ca5e)
Andrew Voznytsa
Måns Rullgård
Bill May

(If you feel your name should be here please mail me, I
can't remember everyone)
