History
The Apple Lossless Encoder (the software for encoding into ALAC files) was introduced into the Mac OS X Core Audio framework on April 28, 2004 together with the QuickTime 6.5.1 update, and thus available in iTunes as of version 4.5 and above. The codec is also used in the AirPort and AirPlay implementation.
The Apple Lossless Encoder (and decoder) was released as open source software under the Apache License version 2.0 on October 27, 2011.
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