[DECtalk] legality of decTalk

[Karen Lewellen]

Hi Josh,
I have known Mike for years, and while he he is many things, he is not a 
lawyer.
I am not disputing your story in any way.
If Roger, who I assume is the person who wrote dectalk code does not care, 
he can put this in writing.
securing this will not be hard, if indeed Roger does not care, especially, 
unless you recorded that conversation, hearsay will likely carry little 
legal protection.
Mike  did not build those dectalk units, the only sells them.
still, what harm  will it do to have Roger put in writing that he gives 
full permission for whomever to develop the dectalk code.  That said 
party can freely distribute the code as they wish, and that Roger 
relinquishes all future writes to the code hence forth?
Just a thought, better written then questioned later.
Karen



On Thu, 1 Dec 2022, joshknnd1982 at gmail.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I spoke to Mike Cozz from Colorado, maker of decTalk USB and triple-talk
> USB. He said it is ridiculous and laughable that people are going to be sued
> for doing what we want with decTalk source code. He also told me right on
> the phone that Roger Dudley does not care what we do with the source code.
> As far as Mike and Roger are concerned, DecTalk is ours to do with what we
> want. They don't even care if we distribute it with NVDA. If you don't
> believe me then email me off list and I can have you talk to Mike himself. I
> spent a few hours oon the phone with him discussing various tts software and
> hardware. Mike and Roger do not care and I heard it myself over the phone
> last night from Mike himself.
>
>
>
>
>
>