[DECtalk] Software DECtalk availability (was Re: using dectalk with orca in ubuntu)

[Jason J.G. White]

On 3/2/24 20:24, Miguel Villagomez wrote:
> Also worth noting is that version 4.99 also has support for compiling 
> under arm64, so you can run it on something like a Raspberry Pi.
> The BT Speak, which is Blazie’s handheld Linux device, uses a 64-bit 
> ARM processor, so it's extremely likely that they’re using this 
> version in the device.

I wasn't sure about ARM64 support. Thank you for clarifying. As an 
aside, how complicated do you think it would be to port it to Risc-V? 
This isn't important yet, but it may be in the future, hence the 
concerns about long-term maintenance under the new owners.

Also, I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice of any kind, and if 
you need legal advice, you should consult a qualified legal 
practitioner. Now to my issue. My non-expert's understanding is that 
people who contributed non-trivial changes on GitHub still hold the 
copyright to their individual contributions. So licencing a version 
which includes those changes could raise interesting issues. I don't 
know whether an implied licence would be taken to exist or what the 
position would be without the consent of those contributors.