Hi, I put together all the pieces needed to enable audio input (with pulseaudio) from the Microsoft Kinect[1] sensor device on GNU/Linux systems, I called the project kinect-audio-setup[2]. Before proposing its inclusion in Debian I'd like to address a couple of legal doubts I have; maybe you can help me. 1) Can I use the word "Kinect" in my project name? I read that the name "Kinect" is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation[3], in the project description I make clear that the software is related to the _Microsoft_ Kinect device, but maybe this is not enough, I don't know. 2) For the audio to work a binary firmware is needed; it can be taken from the Micosoft Kinect for Windows SDK[4] but since that is not re-distributable I decided to use a script[5] which downloads and extracts the firmware, the script is going to be called at installation time, is that OK? Thanks, Antonio [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinect [2] http://git.ao2.it/kinect-audio-setup.git/ [3] http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2010/05/04/microsoft-files-for-kinect-trademark/ [4] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/kinectsdk/ [5] http://git.ao2.it/kinect-audio-setup.git/blob/HEAD:/kinect_fetch_fw -- Antonio Ospite http://ao2.it PGP public key ID: 0x4553B001 A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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