LICENSE

  openSMILE 
   - open-source Speech and Music Interpretation by Large-space Extraction -

  Copyright (c) audEERING GmbH, Gilching, Germany. All rights reserved. 
  http://www.audeering.com/

  Copyright (c) 2016-2020, audEERING GmbH
  Copyright (c) 2013-2015, audEERING UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)
  Copyright (c) 2008-2013, Institute for Human-Machine Communication, 
                           Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
 
Licensing terms & your rights
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 If you use openSMILE or any code from openSMILE in your research work,
 you are kindly asked to acknowledge the use of openSMILE in your 
 publications. See the file CITING for details.
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for the software or data identified above, which may include source code, 
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associated media and "online" or electronic documentation 
(together, the "Software").  

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Commerical license options
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For commercial and other licensing options, please contact us at audEERING 
via e-mail: 

   info@audeering.com 


Third-party contributions and dependencies
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openSMILE uses a number of third-party components for which you can 
find the licensing terms in the folder "licenses".

As part of the build process, a number of third-party CMake modules
are used. Please see the license notices in the folder "cmake".