[DECtalk] DECTalk licensing etc

[Josh Kennedy]

⁷ yes thank you for making it available. And I have to agree with Kyle
here. It would be great if almost everything in the world would use open
source licenses. It seems like a lot of things are heading that way though
even 11 Labs with their new text to speech and that tortoise text to speech
voice cloning stuff a lot of that stuff is open source so we seem to be
slowly heading in the right direction and to be honest I never read license
agreements I just click the agree button. Because the license agreement is
pages and pages of boring legal stuff that most of it I don't understand
anyway and I really don't care about I know that if I click agree it'll
install and if I click I don't agree it closes the installer

On Thu, Feb 23, 2023, 12:07 Kyle via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
wrote:

> This is what I really don't like about proprietary code and companies
> controlling software and firmware. The arts actually suffer from much of
> this as well. You know things are pretty messed up legally when authors
> themselves have no right to give away, sell, or do whatever they want
> with what they wrote, and it's even worse when they don't even know who
> has the right to make those types of decisions. The paperwork is
> probably enough to let us walk on it all the way to Mars. This is where
> I am forced to agree with Josh when he says that it's all legal horse
> hockey. Well, we can band together and try to seek the power who has the
> right to license the software, or we can just be happy that it's
> available, build and use it, have fun with it, mirror it somewhere in
> case Microsoft gets a takedown notice and does what they like to do,
> take it down. Legally we can't put it in distros, make speech-dispatcher
> work better with it, anything like that, but at least we can use it as
> long as it isn't taken down. Actually, maybe we should hope for a
> takedown notice. Although this sounds like a bad thing in general, it
> would at least give those of us who want to see this code liberated a
> point of contact. After negotiations, the copyright holder of course can
> withdraw the takedown notice, and we could get back to enjoying DECTalk
> in all its hopefully open source glory at that point. Until things
> change though, I will speak no more on this licensing issue, and will
> just be happy that I am able to play with it and use it, and will surely
> promote the DECTalk software as an option for those who need software
> speech that can work with speech-dispatcher and does not cause pain or
> other issues when heard. Thanks Tom and all for making this available to
> those who want and/or need it.
>
> ~Kyle
>
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