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