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This version of the Csound Manual ("The Canonical Csound Manual") is released under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. Below are listed, for historical purposes, previous copyrights and requests for credit from previous authors.

Copyright (c) 1986, 1992 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. All rights reserved.

Copyright (c) 2003 by Kevin Conder for modifications made to the Public Csound Reference Manual.

Copyright 2004-2005 by Michael Gogins for modifications made to the Alternative Csound Reference Manual.

Csound

Csound is copyright 1991-2025 by Barry Vercoe, John ffitch and others.

Csound is free software; you can redistribute them and/or modify them under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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