(Note: if you want to compile the Win32 port of gAlan, read README.w32)

This is gAlan, an audio-processing program for X-windows (or platforms
that support GTK+). gAlan is distributed under the GNU General Public
License - for more information please see the COPYING file in this
directory.

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NOTE: As a special exception, gAlan plugins are *not* required to be
licensed under the GPL. The writer gets to choose a license for each
plugin he/she writes. So if any third party vendor wants to distribute
a plugin for gAlan with a different license, that's fine - and if
they're a little touchy about their source-code, they're welcome to
distribute the plugin as a binary only.

However, please do consider releasing your plugin under the GPL. Each
such open-sourced plugin makes the whole project just that little bit
stronger.
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Please see the INSTALL file for installation instructions - it should
be sufficient to type

	$ ./configure
	$ make
		(and then as root)
	# make install

You will need GTK+ v1.2.x and a properly-configured OSS-compatible soundcard
capable of 44.1kHz 16-bit stereo output. A fast CPU is also recommended.

gAlan tries to detect the audiofile libraryi, the ESD library and libvorbis on
your system. If it does this wrongly, please try to find out what went
wrong and let me know. Specifically, if you don't have ESD installed
and gAlan refuses to compile, this is a bug and I want to know about
it.



For further information, tutorials, and user- and developer-guides, please see
the doc/ subdirectory and the main gAlan website,

	http://galan.sourceforge.net/

Good luck!

	Tony Garnock-Jones
	surazal@ihug.co.nz
	30 August 1999

gAlan is now maintained by 

	Torben Hohn
	torbenh@users.sourceforge.net
   
so if you have questions especially because i am
to lazy to write the documentation drop me a mail... 
