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Original author(s) | Paul Davis, Stéphane Letz | ||||
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Developer(s) | JACK team | ||||
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Repository | github | ||||
Written in | C,[1] 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[2] | ||||
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)[3] 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.[2]