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  1. Comments by bzt: removed autoconf, replaced with a brainfuck simple Makefile.
  2. Also fixed some include issues, lots of macro and casting issues and two
  3. buffer overflows in quantize.c...
  4. Original readme follows:
  5. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  6. LAME 3.xx
  7. LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder
  8. http://lame.sf.net
  9. May 2011
  10. Originally developed by Mike Cheng (www.uq.net.au/~zzmcheng) and was
  11. latter developed by Mark Taylor (www.mp3dev.org). Currently maintained
  12. by The LAME Project.
  13. This code is distributed under the GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
  14. (LGPL, see www.gnu.org), version 2.
  15. As LAME may contain software for which some companies may claim software
  16. patents, if you are in a location where software patents are recognized, it is
  17. suggested that you seek legal advice before deploying and/or redistributing
  18. LAME.
  19. In particular, it is suggested to visit
  20. http://www.mp3licensing.com/
  21. if it applies to your jurisdiction.
  22. ============================================================================
  23. see the file "INSTALL" for installation (compiling) instructions.
  24. see the file "USAGE" for the most up-to-date guide to the command line options.
  25. see the file "LICENSE" for details on how to use LAME in non-GPL programs.
  26. see the file "HACKING" if you are interested in working on LAME
  27. see the file "API" for details of the LAME encoding library API
  28. There is HTML documentation and a man page in the doc directory.
  29. ============================================================================
  30. LAME uses the MPGLIB decoding engine, from the mpg123 package, written
  31. by: Michael Hipp (www.mpg123.de) MPGLIB is released under the GPL.
  32. Copyrights (c) 1999-2011 by The LAME Project
  33. Copyrights (c) 1999,2000,2001 by Mark Taylor
  34. Copyrights (c) 1998 by Michael Cheng
  35. Copyrights (c) 1995,1996,1997 by Michael Hipp: mpglib
  36. As well as additional copyrights as documented in the source code.