Some VLC plugins use external libraries and make extensive use of the following persons' or companies' code: FAAD2 - Copyright (c) Nero AG, www.nero.com" - GPLv2 or later FFmpeg - Copyright (c) 2000-2017 the FFmpeg developers - LGPLv2.1 or later FluidLite - Copyright (c) 2016 Robin Lobel - LGPLv2.1 or later FluidSynth - Copyright (c) 2003-2010 Peter Hanappe, Conrad Berhörster, Antoine Schmitt, Pedro López-Cabanillas, Josh Green, David Henningsson - LGPLv2.1 or later Fontconfig - Copyright (c) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2006,2007 Keith Packard, (c) 2005 Patrick Lam, (c) 2009 Roozbeh Pournader, (c) 2008,2009 Red Hat, Inc., (c) 2008 Danilo Šegan, (c) 2012 Google, Inc. - MIT License freetype - David Turner, Robert Wilhelm, and Werner Lemberg - FreeType License GSM - Copyright (c) 1992 - 1994, 2009 Jutta Degener & Carsten Bormann - GSM permissive license GNU FriBidi - Copyright (c) 2004-2012 Behdad Esfahbod, Dov Grobgeld, Roozbeh Pournader - LGPLv2.1 or later GnuTLS - Copyright (C) 2000-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. - LGPLv2.1 or later harfbuzz - Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2012 Google, Inc., (c) 2012 Mozilla Foundation, (c) 2011 Codethink Limited, (c) 2008, 2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies), (c) 2009 Keith Stribley, (c) 2009 Martin Hosken and SIL International, (c) 2007 Chris Wilson, (c) 2006 Behdad Esfahbod, (c) 2005 David Turner, (c) 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Red Hat, Inc., (c) 1998-2004 David Turner and Werner Lemberg - Old MIT License liba52 - Aaron Holtzman & Michel Lespinasse, et al. - GPLv2 or later libav - Copyright (c) 2000 - 2015 the libav developers - LGPLv2.1 or later libass - Copyright (c) 2006-2015 Grigori Goronzy et al. - ISC License libbluray - Copyright (c) 2009-2015 VideoLAN and authors - LGPLv2.1 or later libcaca - Copyright (c) 2004 Sam Hocevar - WTFPL / LGPLv2.1 or later / GPLv2 or later / ISC libdca - Copyright (c) 2004-2007 VideoLAN and authors - GPLv2 or later libdvbpsi - Copyright (c) 2001-2017 VideoLAN and authors - LGPLv2.1 or later libdvdcss - Copyright (c) 2001-2017 VideoLAN and authors - GPLv2 or later libdvdread - GPLv2 or later libdvdnav - GPLv2 or later libebml - Copyright (c) 2002-2015 Steve Lhomme - LGPLv2.1 or later libFLAC - Copyright (c) 2001 - 2014 Josh Coalson et al. - Xiph.org BSD license libgme - LGPLv2.1 or later libgpg-error - Copyright 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2013 g10 Code GmbH - LGPLv2.1 or later libkate - Copyright (c) 2008-2011 Vincent Penquerc'h - 3-clause BSD License liblive555 - Copyright (c) 1996-2015 Live Networks, Inc. - LGPLv2.1 or later libmad - Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Robert Leslie, et al. - GPLv2 or later libmatroska - Copyright (c) 2002-2015 Steve Lhomme - LGPLv2.1 or later libmpeg2 - Aaron Holtzman & Michel Lespinasse, et al. - GPLv2 or later libmodplug - Oliver Lapicque, Konstanty - Public domain libogg, libvorbis - Copyright (c) 2002-2015 Xiph.org Foundation - Xiph.org BSD license libpostproc - Copyright (C) 2001-2015 Michael Niedermayer, et al. - GPLv2 or later libpng - Copyright (c) 2004, 2006-2014 Glenn Randers-Perhson, et al. - libpng license libsamplerate - Copyright (c) 2002-2011 Erik de Castro Lopo - GPLv2 or later libschroedinger - Copyright (c) 2006 BBC and Fluendo - MIT License libsdl - Copyright (c) 1997-2014 Sam Lantinga et al. - LGPLv2.1 or later libshout - Copyright (c) 2012 - LGPLv2.1 or later libtheora - Copyright (c) Xiph.org Foundation - Xiph.org BSD license libtiff - Copyright (c) 1988-1997 Sam Leffler, (c) 1991-1997 Silicon Graphics, Inc. - BSD-like libtwolame - Copyright (c) 2001-2004 Michael Cheng, (c) 2004-2006 The TwoLAME Project - LGPLv2.1 or later libupnp - Copyright (c) 2000-2003 Intel Corporation - 3-clause BSD License libvpx - Copyright (c) 2010-2015, Google Inc. - 3-clause BSD License libxml2 - Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Daniel Veillard - MIT License lua - Copyright (c) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio. - MIT License Musepack decoder library - Copyright (c) 2005-2011, The Musepack Development Team - 3-clause BSD License OpenJPEG - Copyright (c) 2002-2014, Communcations and Remote Sensing Laboratory, UCL, Belgium - ISC License Opus - Copyright 2001-2013 Xiph.Org, Skype Limited, Octasic, Jean-Marc Valin, Timothy B. Terriberry, CSIRO, Gregory Maxwell, Mark Borgerding, Erik de Castro Lopo - Xiph.org BSD License Sparkle — Andy Matuschak et al. - MIT License Speex, Speexdsp - Copyright (c) 1992-2015 Xiph.org Foundation, Jean-Marc Valin, Analog Devices Inc. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, David Row, Jutta Degener, Carsten Bormann - 3-clause BSD License taglib - Copyright (c) 2004-2016 Scott Wheeler, et al. - LGPLv2.1 or later x264 - Copyright (c) 2004-2017 VideoLAN and authors - GPLv2 or later x265 - Copyright (c) 2004-2015 x265 project - GPLv2 or later Zapping VBI library - Copyright (c) 2000-2003 Michael H. Schimek, Iñaki García Etxebarria - LGPLv2.1 or later zlib - Copyright (c) 1995-2017 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler - zlib license The VideoLAN team would like to thank the following donators: Julian Cain, who made a $1000 donation The French website MacBidouille gave €500 to help us buy a PowerMac G5 The French magazine à vos MAC gave €500 to help us buy a PowerMac G5 Laurent Dupuy, who made a €540 donation The French company Cybervia (Actech) gave €2000 to pay for webserver hosting Dennis Perov - Hardware donation ...the following active members of our user community: Alan Wright David J LaBarre "DJ" Eric Adler Julien Bouquillon ...and code auditors and testers: David Thiel Philippe A. aka "Lotesdelère" Sebastien Chaumat