                      LAME 3.xx   
               LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder
               http://www.sulaco.org/mp3
	           October 1999

Originally developed by Mike Cheng (www.uq.net.au/~zzmcheng).  Now 
maintained by Mark Taylor (www.sulaco.org/mp3).

This code is distributed under the GNU LESSER PUBLIC LICENSE
(LGPL, see www.gnu.org) with the following modification:

1. If you determine that distribution of LAME requires a patent license,
   and you obtain a patent license, you may distribute LAME even though
   redistribution of LAME may also require a patent license.  

2. You agree not to enforce any patent claims for any aspect of
   MPEG audio compression, or any other techniques contained in 
   the LAME source code. 


============================================================================

see the file "INSTALL" for installation (compiling) instructions.  
see the file "USAGE" for the most up-to-date guide to the command line options.
see the file "LICENSE" for details on how to use LAME in non-GPL programs.
see the file "HACKING" for some general codeing guidelines

There is HTML documentation and a man page in the doc directory.
The HTML docs were contributed by Gabriel Bouvigne (www.mp3tech.org).
See www.mp3tech.org for more audio compression information and links.

============================================================================

LAME uses the MPGLIB decoding engine, from the
MPG123 package, written by: Michael Hipp (www.mpg123.de) MPGLIB is
released under the GPL, while MPG123 is released under a more
restrictive agreement.

Various components are:

Copyrights (c) 1999 by Mark Taylor: new psy-model, quantization and bit allocation 
Copyrights (c) 1998 by Michael Cheng:  new transforms and many other improvements
Copyrights (c) 1995,1996,1997 by Michael Hipp: mpglib

