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

[Jason J.G. White]

On 4/2/24 07:18, Josh Kennedy wrote:
> Lets say for example, you started a commercial company called Karen 
> LuEllen incorporated. You want to develop your own product, your own 
> noteTaker, a for-profit operating system, or a new talking microwave. 
> You want to use decTalk in that product. You want to sell that product 
> with decTalk incorporated into it. You would have to license decTalk 
> in order to do that. 

I think that's the kind of scenario that the AGPLv3 license typically 
wouldn't allow for and for which a commercial license would be needed.

However if all of the software in your product were open-source and you 
were only selling the hardware, then you wouldn't need a commercial 
license under the AGPL as far as I'm aware. As I remember, the AGPL also 
addresses the situation in which you run a commercial service involving 
proprietary software, and you want to use code licensed under the AGPl 
in it - which is not permitted.

So, on that basis, assuming Josh's characterization is accurate, I'm not 
sure wehther an option such as AGPLv3 might be attractive to the new owner.