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
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