PM123's Copyright, Credits and Greetings

Rosmo's greetings go out to: Sektori.com folks, dink (check out his cool Z! MP3 player), Olli 'MrWizard' Maksimainen, Adrian 'ktk' Gschwend (Netlabs rules!), ml, Eirik 'Ltning' Overby, tSS, PartyGirl, Kerni, NuKe, WinAmp authors for inspiration, #os2finnin kanta-asiakkaat, #os2prog'ers (now #codepros no?), Sinebrychoff and all MP3 enthuastics.

Samuel's greetings: Mom, Miho, Sophie, Gerry, Marc, Olli Maksimainen, Mads Orbesen Troest (Leech it!), Eirik Overby (made some cool skins!), dink, nuke (EverBlue ready now?? :), Adrian Gschwend (aka ktk), GryGhost, Julien Pierre (who helped me with MMOS/2 before), Cow_woC, Sander van Leeuwen, Achim Hasenmueller (lou!! WHAT? Odin not ready yet? :) and of course Michael Hipp and Oliver Fromme!!

Finally, thanks to Filip Molcan for updating this manual for pm123 1.1 beta 4!

Please read first the important information in the COPYRIGHT.html and COPYING.html files that have been copied below.

This license covers the entirety of the PM123 source file distribution, except GBM which is left into the public domain, and the mpg123 plug-in which is left under the license found below.

Copyright 2005-2008 Marcel Müller
Copyright 2004-2007 Dmitry A.Steklenev
Copyright 1997-2003 Samuel Audet and Taneli Leppä

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

  1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
  2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
  3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
This license covers ONLY mpg123.dll and the related source files.

Copyright (c) 1995-1999 by Michael Hipp, all rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1998-2003 by Samuel Audet, all rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2004-2007 by Dmitry A.Stekelnev, all rights reserved.

Original mpg123 decoder written/modified by:

Michael Hipp
Oliver Fromme

with help and code from:

Samuel Audet and Dmitry A.Steklenev: OS/2 port
MPEG Software Simulation Group: reference decoder package Tobias Bading: idea for DCT64 in subband synthesis from maplay package
Jeff Tsay and Mikko Tommila: MDCT36 from maplay package
Philipp Knirsch: DCT36/manual unroll idea
Thomas Woerner: SGI Audio
Damien Clermonte: HP-UX audio fixes
Stefan Bieschewski: Pentium optimizations, decode_i586.s
Martin Denn: NAS port
Niklas Beisert: MPEG 2.5 tables
Kevin Brintnall: BSD patch
Tony Million: win32 port
Steven Tiger Lang: advanced shuffle
Henrik P Johnson: HTTP auth patch
and more ....

Current distribution site for new test versions is the CVS repository. http://www.mpg123.org has more information about how to acces the CVS repository.

You can get the latest release from http://www.mpg123.org

DISTRIBUTION

This software may be distributed freely, provided that it is distributed in its entirety, without modifications, and with the original copyright notice and license included. You may distribute your own seperate patches together with this software package or a modified package if you always include a pointer where to get the original unmodified package. In this case you must inform the author about the modified package. The software may not be sold for profit or as "hidden" part of another software, but it may be included with collections of other software, such as CD-ROM images of FTP servers and similar, provided that this software is not a significant part of that collection. Precompiled binaries of this software may be distributed in the same way, provided that this copyright notice and license is included without modification.

USAGE

This software may be used freely, provided that the original author is always credited. If you intend to use this software as a significant part of business (for-profit) activities, you have to contact the author first. Also, any usage that is not covered by this license requires the explicit permission of the author.

DISCLAIMER

This software is provided as-is. The author can not be held liable for any damage that might arise from the use of this software. Use it at your own risk.