FLAC is comprised of several components distributed under different licenses. The codec libraries are distributed under Xiph.Org's BSD- like license (see the file COPYING.Xiph in this directory). All other programs, libraries, and plugins are distributed under the GPL (see COPYING.GPL). The documentation is distributed under the Gnu FDL (see COPYING.FDL) Each file in the FLAC source distribution contains at the top the terms under which it may be distributed.