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

[Jason J.G. White]

I looked it up, and I suspect a license such as AGPL might not restrict 
commercial uses sufficiently, and thus may not be attractive to them.


On 4/2/24 08:12, Jason J.G. White via Dectalk wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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