1 Some VLC plugins use external libraries and make extensive use of the
2 following persons' or companies' code:
4 FAAD2 - Copyright (c) Nero AG, www.nero.com" - GPLv2 or later
5 FFmpeg - Copyright (c) 2000-2015 the FFmpeg developers - LGPLv2.1 or later
6 FluidSynth - Copyright (c) 2003-2010 Peter Hanappe, Conrad Berhörster, Antoine
7 Schmitt, Pedro López-Cabanillas, Josh Green, David Henningsson - LGPLv2.1 or
9 Fontconfig - Copyright (c) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2006,2007 Keith Packard,
10 (c) 2005 Patrick Lam, (c) 2009 Roozbeh Pournader, (c) 2008,2009 Red Hat,
11 Inc., (c) 2008 Danilo Šegan, (c) 2012 Google, Inc. - MIT License
12 freetype - David Turner, Robert Wilhelm, and Werner Lemberg - FreeType License
13 GSM - Copyright (c) 1992 - 1994, 2009 Jutta Degener & Carsten Bormann - GSM
15 GNU FriBidi - Copyright (c) 2004-2012 Behdad Esfahbod, Dov Grobgeld, Roozbeh
16 Pournader - LGPLv2.1 or later
17 GnuTLS - Copyright (C) 2000-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. - LGPLv2.1 or
19 harfbuzz - Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2012 Google, Inc., (c) 2012 Mozilla
20 Foundation, (c) 2011 Codethink Limited, (c) 2008, 2010 Nokia Corporation
21 and/or its subsidiary(-ies), (c) 2009 Keith Stribley, (c) 2009 Martin Hosken
22 and SIL International, (c) 2007 Chris Wilson, (c) 2006 Behdad Esfahbod,
23 (c) 2005 David Turner, (c) 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Red Hat, Inc.,
24 (c) 1998-2004 David Turner and Werner Lemberg - Old MIT License
25 liba52 - Aaron Holtzman & Michel Lespinasse, et al. - GPLv2 or later
26 libav - Copyright (c) 2000 - 2015 the libav developers - LGPLv2.1 or later
27 libass - Copyright (c) 2006-2015 Grigori Goronzy et al. - ISC License
28 libbluray - Copyright (c) 2009-2015 VideoLAN and authors - LGPLv2.1 or later
29 libcaca - Copyright (c) 2004 Sam Hocevar - WTFPL / LGPLv2.1 or later /
31 libdca - Copyright (c) 2004-2007 VideoLAN and authors - GPLv2 or later
32 libdvbpsi - Copyright (c) 2001-2015 VideoLAN and authors - LGPLv2.1 or later
33 libdvdcss - Copyright (c) 2001-2015 VideoLAN and authors - GPLv2 or later
34 libdvdread - GPLv2 or later
35 libdvdnav - GPLv2 or later
36 libebml - Copyright (c) 2002-2015 Steve Lhomme - LGPLv2.1 or later
37 libFLAC - Copyright (c) 2001 - 2014 Josh Coalson et al. - Xiph.org BSD license
38 libgme - LGPLv2.1 or later
39 libgpg-error - Copyright 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2013 g10 Code GmbH
41 libkate - Copyright (c) 2008-2011 Vincent Penquerc'h - 3-clause BSD License
42 liblive555 - Copyright (c) 1996-2015 Live Networks, Inc. - LGPLv2.1 or later
43 libmad - Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Robert Leslie, et al. - GPLv2 or later
44 libmatroska - Copyright (c) 2002-2015 Steve Lhomme - LGPLv2.1 or later
45 libmpeg2 - Aaron Holtzman & Michel Lespinasse, et al. - GPLv2 or later
46 libmodplug - Oliver Lapicque, Konstanty - Public domain
47 libogg, libvorbis - Copyright (c) 2002-2015 Xiph.org Foundation - Xiph.org BSD
49 libpostproc - Copyright (C) 2001-2015 Michael Niedermayer, et al. - GPLv2 or
51 libpng - Copyright (c) 2004, 2006-2014 Glenn Randers-Perhson, et al. - libpng
53 libsamplerate - Copyright (c) 2002-2011 Erik de Castro Lopo - GPLv2 or later
54 libschroedinger - Copyright (c) 2006 BBC and Fluendo - MIT License
55 libsdl - Copyright (c) 1997-2014 Sam Lantinga et al. - LGPLv2.1 or later
56 libshout - Copyright (c) 2012 - LGPLv2.1 or later
57 libtheora - Copyright (c) Xiph.org Foundation - Xiph.org BSD license
58 libtiff - Copyright (c) 1988-1997 Sam Leffler, (c) 1991-1997 Silicon Graphics,
60 libtwolame - Copyright (c) 2001-2004 Michael Cheng, (c) 2004-2006 The TwoLAME
61 Project - LGPLv2.1 or later
62 libupnp - Copyright (c) 2000-2003 Intel Corporation - 3-clause BSD License
63 libvpx - Copyright (c) 2010-2015, Google Inc. - 3-clause BSD License
64 libxml2 - Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Daniel Veillard - MIT License
65 lua - Copyright (c) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio. - MIT License
66 Musepack decoder library - Copyright (c) 2005-2011, The Musepack Development
67 Team - 3-clause BSD License
68 OpenJPEG - Copyright (c) 2002-2014, Communcations and Remote Sensing
69 Laboratory, UCL, Belgium - ISC License
70 Opus - Copyright 2001-2013 Xiph.Org, Skype Limited, Octasic, Jean-Marc Valin,
71 Timothy B. Terriberry, CSIRO, Gregory Maxwell, Mark Borgerding,
72 Erik de Castro Lopo - Xiph.org BSD License
73 Sparkle — Andy Matuschak et al. - MIT License
74 Speex, Speexdsp - Copyright (c) 1992-2015 Xiph.org Foundation, Jean-Marc Valin,
75 Analog Devices Inc. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
76 Organisation, David Row, Jutta Degener, Carsten Bormann - 3-clause BSD
78 taglib - Copyright (c) 2004-2013 Scott Wheeler, et al. - LGPLv2.1 or later
79 x264 - Copyright (c) 2004-2015 VideoLAN and authors - GPLv2 or later
80 x265 - Copyright (c) 2004-2015 x265 project - GPLv2 or later
81 Zapping VBI library - Copyright (c) 2000-2003 Michael H. Schimek, Iñaki García
82 Etxebarria - LGPLv2.1 or later
83 zlib - Copyright (c) 1995-2012 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler - zlib license
85 The VideoLAN team would like to thank the following donators:
87 Julian Cain, who made a $1000 donation
88 The French website MacBidouille gave €500 to help us buy a PowerMac G5
89 The French magazine à vos MAC gave €500 to help us buy a PowerMac G5
90 Laurent Dupuy, who made a €540 donation
91 The French company Cybervia (Actech) gave €2000 to pay for webserver hosting
92 Dennis Perov - Hardware donation
94 ...the following active members of our user community:
101 ...and code auditors and testers:
104 Philippe A. aka "Lotesdelère"