JACK Audio Connection Kit
| JACK Audio Connection Kit | |||||
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| Original author(s) | Paul Davis, Stéphane Letz | ||||
| Developer(s) | JACK team | ||||
| Initial release | 2002 | ||||
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| Repository | github | ||||
| Written in | C, C++ | ||||
| Operating system | BSD, Linux, macOS, Solaris, Windows, iOS | ||||
| Type | Sound server | ||||
| License | Server: GPL-2.0-or-later Library: LGPL-2.1-or-later | ||||
| Website | jackaudio | ||||
JACK Audio Connection Kit (or JACK; a recursive acronym) is a professional sound server API and pair of daemon implementations to provide real-time, low-latency connections for both audio and MIDI data between applications. JACK was developed by a community of open-source developers led by Paul Davis (who won an Open Source Award in 2004 for this work) and has been a key piece of infrastructure and the de facto standard for professional audio software on Linux since its inception in 2002. The server is free software, licensed under GPL-2.0-or-later, while the library is licensed under LGPL-2.1-or-later.