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1This is LAME 3.88 from www.mp3dev.org,
2stripped down for Plan 9.
3
4-rsc
5
6=============================================
7                      LAME 3.xx
8               LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder
9                 http://www.mp3dev.org
10	             March 2001
11
12Originally developed by Mike Cheng (www.uq.net.au/~zzmcheng).  Now
13maintained by Mark Taylor (www.sulaco.org/mp3).
14
15This code is distributed under the GNU LESSER PUBLIC LICENSE
16(LGPL, see www.gnu.org) with the following modification:
17
181. If you determine that distribution of LAME requires a patent license,
19   and you obtain a patent license, you may distribute LAME even though
20   redistribution of LAME may also require a patent license.
21
222. You agree not to enforce any patent claims for any aspect of
23   MPEG audio compression, or any other techniques contained in
24   the LAME source code.
25
26
27============================================================================
28
29see the file "INSTALL" for installation (compiling) instructions.
30see the file "USAGE" for the most up-to-date guide to the command line options.
31see the file "LICENSE" for details on how to use LAME in non-GPL programs.
32see the file "HACKING" if you are interested in working on LAME
33see the file "API" for details of the LAME encoding library API
34
35There is HTML documentation and a man page in the doc directory.
36The HTML docs were contributed by Gabriel Bouvigne (www.mp3tech.org).
37See www.mp3tech.org for more audio compression information and links.
38
39============================================================================
40
41LAME uses the MPGLIB decoding engine, from the MPG123 package, written
42by: Michael Hipp (www.mpg123.de) MPGLIB is released under the GPL.
43
44Copyrights (c) 1999,2000,2001 by Mark Taylor
45Copyrights (c) 1998 by Michael Cheng
46Copyrights (c) 1995,1996,1997 by Michael Hipp: mpglib
47
48As well as additional copyrights as documented in the source code.
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