JACK Audio Connection Kit

JACK Audio Connection Kit
Original author(s)Paul Davis, Stéphane Letz
Developer(s)JACK team
Stable release
JACK1:v0.126.0 / January 15, 2022; 2 years ago (2022-01-15)
JACK2:v1.9.22 / February 3, 2023; 21 months ago (2023-02-03)
Repositorygithub.com/jackaudio/jack2
Written inC,[1] C++
Operating systemBSD, Linux, macOS, Solaris, Windows, iOS
TypeSound server
LicenseServer: GPL-2.0-or-later
Library: LGPL-2.1-or-later[2]
Websitejackaudio.org Edit this at Wikidata

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]

  1. ^ "JACK". Analysis Summary. Ohloh. Retrieved 2012-01-08.
  2. ^ a b "JACK Audio Connection Kit - License". Archived from the original on 2021-05-03. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  3. ^ "Open Source Awards 2004: Paul Davis for JACK". techrepublic.com.com. Retrieved 24 May 2016.