Xiph.org Foundation

Preferred license: In general, we use a modified-BSD style license for our libraries, to enable the widest possible uses of our formats and reference implementations. http://opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php Our applications are generally GPL but LGPL or (GPL-compatible) modified BSD is also acceptable.
Xiph.org is an open source project and non-profit corporation dedicated to providing open and free-to-implement multimedia technology as a foundation for an interoperable, level playing field on the internet and other digital distribution networks. Over the past 8 years we have hosted development for all the major patent-free audio and video codec development, including the Vorbis, Speex, FLAC and Theora, the Ogg streaming format, and the Icecast streaming media server. This year we are also coordinating projects for the Annodex Association under our umbrella. The Annodex project is developing a set of open specifications and open source software to allow the creation of hyperlinked Webs of audio and video integrated with the text-based view of the current Web. Toward this goal, Annodex has done a great deal of work developing tools, browswer plugins and convenience libraries to facilitate adoption of Xiph.org's lower-level technology. As such the two projects have largely aligned goals, but focus on different levels in the stack.
 
Current Projects
by Chaitanya B Sharma, mentored by Timothy B. Terriberry
by Maxim Litvinov, mentored by Conrad Parker
Development assistant for the 'Ghost' audio codec
by Anup K C, mentored by Jean-Marc Valin
by Felipe Portavales Goldstein, mentored by Ralph Giles