FREEDESKTOP SOUND THEME

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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


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/calculationg_rg.html

PUT TOGETHER BY:
	Lennart Poettering, 2008

