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98 changes: 98 additions & 0 deletions licensing/license_notes.md
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# license notes

The canonical python-soundfile repository is located [here](https://github.com/bastibe/python-soundfile).

While python-soundfile itself is licensed under the
[BSD-3-Clause](https://opensource.org/license/bsd-3-clause) license, it links
against media libraries that are licensed under a mixture of LGPL and BSD
licenses within [libsndfile](https://github.com/libsndfile/libsndfile). To help
ensure compliance for each of these libraries, copyrights and links to the
corresponding source code are included below.

## libflac

Copyright: 1994-2013, Free Software Foundation, Inc
2000-2009, Josh Coalson
2011-2025, Xiph.Org Foundation http://www.xiph.org/

License: BSD-3-Clause

Source: [here](https://github.com/xiph/flac)

Note: FLAC is GFDL-1.3, GPL-2.0, LGPL-2.1, and BSD-3-Clause licensed for
different components. We are only using the libFLAC component, which is
BSD-3-Clause.

## libmp3lame

Copyright: 1998, Michael Cheng
1999-2001, Mark Taylor
1999-2002, Albert L. Faber
1999-2005, Takehiro Tominaga
1999-2007, The LAME Project
2000-2005, Alexander Leidinger
2000-2005, Elecard Ltd.
2000-2005, Gabriel Bouvigne
2000-2005, Marie Orlova
2000-2005, Peter Gubanov
2000-2005, Vitaly Ivanov
2000-2008, Gabriel Bouvigne
2000-2008, Robert Hegemann
2000, Don Melton
2000, Frank Klemm
2001-2002, Naoki Shibata
2001, John Dahlstrom
2001, Jonathan Dee
2001, Ralf Kempkens
2002, Per Bolmstedt
2003, Olcios

License: LGPL-2+

Source: [here](https://sourceforge.net/p/lame/svn/HEAD/tree/)

## libmpg123

Copyright:
1995-2025 by the mpg123 project
2008 Christian Weisgerber <naddy@openbsd.org>
2006-2007 by Zuxy Meng
2000-2002 David Olofson
1998 Fabrice Bellard
1997 Mikko Tommila

License: LGPL-2.1

Source: [here](https://www.mpg123.de/trunk/)

## libogg

Copyright: 1994-2025, the Xiph.Org Foundation http://www.xiph.org/

License: BSD-3-Clause

Source: [here](https://github.com/xiph/ogg)

## libopus

Copyright: 1994-2025, the Xiph.Org Foundation http://www.xiph.org/
2001-2018, Skype Limited
2001-2018, Octasic
2001-2018, Jean-Marc Valin
2001-2018, Timothy B. Terriberry
2001-2018, CSIRO
2001-2018, Gregory Maxwell
2001-2018, Mark Borgerding
2001-2018, Erik de Castro Lopo

License: BSD-3-Clause

Source: [here](https://github.com/xiph/opus)

## libvorbis

Copyright (C) 2002-2025 Xiph.Org Foundation

License: BSD-3-Clause

Source: [here](https://github.com/xiph/vorbis)
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libname = None

if libname and os.path.isdir('_soundfile_data'):
packages = ['_soundfile_data']
package_data = {'_soundfile_data': [libname, 'COPYING']}
packages = ['_soundfile_data', 'licensing']
package_data = {'_soundfile_data': [libname, 'COPYING'], 'licensing': ['license_notes.md']}
zip_safe = False
else:
packages = None
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