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FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is
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similar to MP3, but lossless. The FLAC project consists of:
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* the stream format
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* libFLAC, which implements reference encoders and decoders
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* flac, a command-line wrapper around libFLAC to encode and decode .flac
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files
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* input plugins for various music players (Winamp, XMMS, and more in the
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works)
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"Free" means that the specification of the stream format is in the public
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domain (the FLAC project reserves the right to set the FLAC specification
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and certify compliance), and that neither the FLAC format nor any of the
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implemented encoding/decoding methods are covered by any patent. It also
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means that the source for libFLAC is available under the LGPL and the
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sources for flac and the plugins are available under the GPL.
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