LAME 3.xx

               LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder

                  http://lame.sf.net

	                  May 2011

Originally developed by Mike Cheng (www.uq.net.au/~zzmcheng) and was

latter developed by Mark Taylor (www.mp3dev.org). Currently maintained

by The LAME Project.

This code is distributed under the GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

(LGPL, see www.gnu.org), version 2.

As LAME may contain software for which some companies may claim software

patents, if you are in a location where software patents are recognized, it is

suggested that you seek legal advice before deploying and/or redistributing

LAME.

In particular, it is suggested to visit

    http://www.mp3licensing.com/

if it applies to your jurisdiction.

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see the file "INSTALL" for installation (compiling) instructions.

see the file "USAGE" for the most up-to-date guide to the command line options.

see the file "LICENSE" for details on how to use LAME in non-GPL programs.

see the file "HACKING" if you are interested in working on LAME

see the file "API" for details of the LAME encoding library API

There is HTML documentation and a man page in the doc directory.

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LAME uses the MPGLIB decoding engine, from the mpg123 package, written

by: Michael Hipp (www.mpg123.de) MPGLIB is released under the GPL.

Copyrights (c) 1999-2011 by The LAME Project

Copyrights (c) 1999,2000,2001 by Mark Taylor

Copyrights (c) 1998 by Michael Cheng

Copyrights (c) 1995,1996,1997 by Michael Hipp: mpglib

As well as additional copyrights as documented in the source code.