Multimedia in general and audio in particular were areas dominated almost exclusively by proprietary software. Within the "A GNU/Linux Audio distribution" (AGNULA) project, a group of European universities, companies and organisations -- among them the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) -- set out to change this in 2001.
Version 1.0 of AGNULA was finally released in early 2004.
http://www.agnula.info
This section contains some of the background and historical information about AGNULA.
AGNULA managed to be accepted as European Commission project IST-2001-34879 and was funded from April 1st, 2002 until March 31st, 2004. The project was coordinated by Nicola Bernardini from Centro Tempo Reale, Florence, Italy.
The project was finished to the full satisfaction of the European Commission and you can read the final article about AGNULA on the IST results page of the European Commission at http://istresults.cordis.lu/index.cfm?section=news&tpl=article&BrowsingType=Features&ID=64618.
One seminal role of the FSF Europe inside the AGNULA EU project was to take care of the legal issues, decide upon acceptable licensing policies and care about legal maintainability. Other tasks were making sure that Free Software community interests are heard, helping that information is provided in the best possible way and work on the dissemination of the final results:
For more information and to join the AGNULA community, please visit the AGNULA project home page:
http://www.agnula.info