Apple Lossless [SEP] license
the Apache License version 2.0 on October 27, 2011, however an independent reverse-engineered open-source encoder and decoder were already available before the release.
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David Hammerton and Cody Brocious have analyzed and decoded this codec without any documents on the format. On March 5, 2005, Hammerton published a simple open source decoder in the programming language C on the basis of the reverse engineering work.
The open source library libavcodec incorporates both a decoder and an encoder for Apple Lossless format, which means
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