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 kinect-audio-setup makes audio input from the Microsoft Kinect Sensor
 device work on GNU/Linux systems.
 
-When the Kinect is first plugged in the USB port it shows up as a
-generic USB device with a bulk endpoint; after uploading a certain
+When the Kinect is first plugged in the USB port it shows up as
+a generic USB device with a bulk endpoint; after uploading a certain
 firmware a reenumeration takes place and a USB Audio Class (UAC) device
 becomes available.
 
 kinect-audio-setup provides tools to download the firmware off the net
-at installation time —since it is not redistributable—, and it sets up
-udev rules to call the firmware loader when the device is plugged in to
-finally get the USB Audio Class device.
+at installation time —since the firmware is not redistributable—, and it
+sets up udev rules to call the firmware loader when the device is
+plugged in to finally get the USB Audio Class device.
 
 Note that for all the magic to happen automatically pulseaudio >= 1.0 is
 needed, as it contains the kinect-audio.conf profile which fixes audio
@@ -38,3 +38,15 @@ Then run the firmware fetcher script (remember this is only needed
 once):
 
   # ./kinect_fetch_fw /lib/firmware/kinect
+  # udevadm control --reload-rules
+
+
+The UAC firmware is downloaded from the Microsoft Kinect SDK at
+http://www.kinectforwindows.org, the license of the SDK can be found at
+http://www.kinectforwindows.org/download/EULA.htm
+
+=== Acknowledgements
+
+A special thanks goes to Steven Toth from http://kernellabs.com, who
+kindly sponsored a Kinect to Antonio Ospite and made kinect-audio-setup
+possible in its current form.