FREEDESKTOP SOUND THEME

MAILING LIST:
        https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/libcanberra-discuss

LICENSES AND ORIGINS:
	gnome-audio
                Andreas Karlsson under the Creative Commons ShareAlike 2.0
                Martyn Clement under the Creative Commons - Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic
                Ivica Ico Bukvic (SlipStreamScapes) under the Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 Unported

                See the packages' README for details.

        Ekiga
                Damien Sandras under GPLv2

        KDE
                The KDE developers under LGPLv2

        Pidgin/Purple
                The Pidgin developers under GPLv2

        ALSA
                The ALSA developers under GPLv2

        Berklee
                http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sound_samples#OLPC_Samples_from_31_Music_Synthesis_Alumni_from_Berklee
                Attribution 3.0 Unported

RULES:
        Similar to those defined by gnome-audio, quoting Elliot Lee:

        <snip>
                The criteria for sound inclusion:
                . No licensing issues
                . Appropriate length
                        . Shorter than 1 second for any sound that denotes a specific event
                        . Shorter than 5 seconds for a background sound (basically, startup/shutdown)
                . Appropriate sound
                        . Volume
                        . Normalized between samples
                . Spectral range
                        . No extremes
                . Good taste
                        . KISS
                        . General common sense (hah!)
        </snip>

        Of course, in addition to this the Theming Spec not only requires
        normalized sounds, but those with with good perceived loudness as
        described in:

                http://replaygain.hydrogenaudio.org/calculating_rg.html

PUT TOGETHER BY:
        Lennart Poettering, 2008
        William Jon McCann, 2008