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+Rosegarden v1.7.0
+=================
+
+Rosegarden is a MIDI and audio sequencer and musical notation editor.
+
+  http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/
+
+Please keep an eye on the FAQ for known problems and workarounds:
+
+  http://rosegarden.wiki.sourceforge.net/Frequently+Asked+Questions
+
+When you find bugs, first check whether a newer version of Rosegarden
+has been released yet; if not, please continue on to:
+
+  http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/bug-guidelines.html
+
+
+Build requirements
+------------------
+
+The big requirement is KDE 3.3, or later, or more specifically the KDE
+3.3+ development libraries (you don't need the whole KDE environment).
+
+Our code compiles with gcc-3.x and gcc-4.x.
+
+For MIDI support on Linux, you need ALSA 0.9.x or 1.0; for audio you
+need JACK 0.77 or newer; for synth plugins you need DSSI 0.9.x or
+newer; for synth plugin GUI support you need liblo 0.7 or newer.
+
+We have recently switched to CMake for building (having previously
+started out with autotools and then switched to scons -- sorry!).
+Please read the INSTALL file for details of how to build and install
+Rosegarden using CMake.
+
+
+Running Rosegarden
+------------------
+
+Just run the "rosegarden" application (found in the KDE bin directory
+after installation).  The sequencer process is started automatically
+when the gui is started, provided it has been correctly installed (by
+"make install") in the global KDE directories.
+
+If you have any problems running the application, review the
+instructions in the INSTALL file and consult the FAQ:
+
+  http://rosegarden.wiki.sourceforge.net/Frequently+Asked+Questions
+
+If that doesn't answer your question, use the rosegarden-user mailing
+list on SourceForge.
+
+
+User documentation
+------------------
+
+There is a lot of documentation for Rosegarden available through the
+Help menu.  Go to Help -> Rosegarden Handbook for the reference
+manual, and Help -> Online Tutorial for a tutorial.
+
+
+SPECIAL NOTES FOR PACKAGE MAINTAINERS
+-------------------------------------
+
+DSSI
+
+Many distros released their packages of Rosegarden v1.0 compiled
+without the optional DSSI/synth plugin support.  We received a lot of
+complaints on our lists from your users and ours about your packages
+being built without this feature.
+
+We would like to request that you please take whatever steps are
+necessary within the framework of your particular distro to ensure
+that Rosegarden is built with DSSI support, and ideally that some of
+the currently available DSSI plugins are also packaged for your
+distro.  Thank you.  For details on DSSI, see:
+
+  http://dssi.sourceforge.net/
+
+
+Notes for developers
+--------------------
+
+We are actively seeking developers who are interested in coding new
+parts of the application, adding features, and fixing bugs.  See the
+bug and feature request trackers at SourceForge for inspiration.  If
+you intend to do anything, please discuss it on the rosegarden-devel
+mailing list (of course, providing working code will make your
+argument extra persuasive).
+
+Be warned that we tend to be fairly strict about code quality... as
+far as that's possible, given the not always superb standards of our
+own code.
+
+
+Developer documentation
+-----------------------
+
+All the documentation we have (not enough) is in the docs/
+subdirectory, including:
+
+  docs/code/global_design.txt -- which classes do what, more or less
+  docs/data_struct/units.txt -- how we store pitch and time
+  docs/data_struct/sets.txt -- some terminology explained
+
+  docs/howtos/alsa-notes -- brief notes about getting and installing the
+	ALSA sound drivers (we recommend ALSA for use with Rosegarden)
+  docs/howtos/artsd-mcop-notes.txt -- notes on how to get sound with aRts
+	(not recommended!)
+
+
+Authors and copyright
+---------------------
+
+* Rosegarden is Copyright 2000-2008 Guillaume Laurent, Chris Cannam
+  and Richard Bown.
+
+* The moral right of Guillaume Laurent, Chris Cannam and Richard Bown
+  to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted.
+
+* Parts of Rosegarden are derived from X11 Rosegarden 2.1, which is
+  Copyright 1994 - 2001 Chris Cannam, Andrew Green, Richard Bown and
+  Guillaume Laurent.
+
+* For musical notation display Rosegarden uses pixmaps derived from
+  the Feta font, part of the Lilypond software (http://lilypond.org/)
+  which is Copyright 1997 - 2004 Jan Nieuwenhuizen and Han-Wen Nienhuys.
+
+* Other major contributors include Randall Farmer, Ron Kuris, Hans
+  Kieserman, Michael McIntyre, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas, Heikki Junes,
+  Stephen Torri, Magnus Johansson, Vince Negri and Martin Shepherd.
+  See AUTHORS for more details, and the individual source files for
+  copyright attributions.
+
+* The Rosegarden splash-screen image is Copyright 2007 D Michael McIntyre.
+
+Rosegarden is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
+your option) any later version.  See the file COPYING included with
+this distribution for more information.
+