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WavPack

WavPack is an open audio compression format and software suite by David Bryant offering lossless, lossy and hybrid compression. The library and command-line programs are distributed under the BSD 3-clause licence.

Licensing at a Glance

  • Open source

  1. WavPack is described as a completely open audio compression format providing lossless, high-quality lossy and hybrid compression modes.[1]

  2. WavPack uses only well-known public domain techniques and specifically avoids methods that have ever been patented, so that encoders and decoders remain open and royalty-free.[2]

  3. The WavPack source code, copyright David Bryant, is distributed under a BSD licence permitting redistribution and use in source and binary forms with or without modification, provided the copyright notice and disclaimer are retained.[3]

  4. The WavPack repository contains the libwavpack library, the associated command-line programs and several example plugins, and is identified as BSD-3-Clause licensed.[4]

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References

  1. WavPack Audio Compression · wavpack.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
  2. WavPack Audio Compression · wavpack.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
  3. WavPack COPYING · raw.githubusercontent.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
  4. GitHub - dbry/WavPack: WavPack encode/decode library, command-line programs, and several plugins · github.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
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