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) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers - LGPLv2.1 or later
FluidSynth - Copyright (c) 2003-2010 Peter Hanappe, Conrad Berhrster, Antoine
Schmitt, Pedro Lpez-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 egan, (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 - 2013 the libav developers - LGPLv2.1 or later
libass - Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Grigori Goronzy et al. - ISC License
libbluray - Copyright (c) 2009-2013 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) 2001-2013 VideoLAN and authors - LGPLv2.1 or later
libdvdcss - Copyright (c) 2001-2012 VideoLAN and authors - GPLv2 or later
libdvdread - LGPLv2.1 or later
libdvdnav - LGPLv2.1 or later
libebml - Copyright (c) 2002-2013 Steve Lhomme - LGPLv2.1 or later
libFLAC - Copyright (c) 2001 - 2013 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) 1996-2013 Live Networks, Inc. - LGPLv2.1 or later
libmad - Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Robert Leslie, et al. - GPLv2 or later
libmatroska - Copyright (c) 2002-2013 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 Xiph.org Foundation - Xiph.org BSD
license
libpostproc - Copyright (C) 2001-2012 Michael Niedermayer, et al. - GPLv2 or
later
libpng - Copyright (c) 2004, 2006-2012 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) 1997-2012 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, Google Inc. - 3-clause BSD License
libxml2 - Copyright (c) 1998-2003 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) 2002-2012, Communcations and Remote Sensing
Laboratory, UCL, Belgium - ISC License
Opus - Copyright 2001-2011 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) 1992-2008 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) 2004-2013 Scott Wheeler, et al. - LGPLv2.1 or later
x264 - Copyright (c) 2004-2013 VideoLAN and authors - GPLv2 or later
Zapping VBI library - Copyright (c) 2000-2003 Michael H. Schimek, Iaki Garca
Etxebarria - LGPLv2.1 or later
zlib - Copyright (c) 1995-2012 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 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 "Lotesdelre"
Sebastien Chaumat