If you are not sure what to download, see Using FLAC for instructions and guides on playing FLAC files, ripping CDs to FLAC, etc.
This section is for the
official FLAC tools. See the
extras section below for third-party tools that support or use FLAC.
All source code and binaries are freely available and distributed under
Open Source licenses. The codec libraries are distributed under Xiph.org's BSD license, and the plugins and command-line utilites (
flac and
metaflac) are distributed under the
GPL. If you would like to redistribute parts or all of FLAC under different terms,
contact the FLAC-dev mailinglist. (For more information, see the
license page.)