[DECtalk] Report of a successful use of dectalk with graphical Linux.

[Karen Lewellen]

because that requires permission.
why not get that permission from the individuals providing the source 
code?
Anyone adding a general public license must have the right to do as much.



On Tue, 21 Feb 2023, Josh Kennedy wrote:

> Well why not just go on to its GitHub page and remove all the licenses and
> just replace them with the general public license?
>
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2023, 23:17 Karen Lewellen <klewellen at shellworld.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi members,
>> Sharing this post from the blind Linux users group.  Hope it generates a
>> smile.
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 22:59:35 -0500
>> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> Subject: What a find! DECTalk!
>>
>> I'm happy to be in the fediverse right now. Looking through my timeline, I
>> just
>> found a link to a Github repository that has DECTalk source code,
>> apparently
>> released by some of the original DECTalk developers.
>>
>> https://github.com/dectalk/dectalk
>>
>> The LICENSE file still has scary words like "proprietary" and
>> "confidential"
>> and "all rights reserved," but the source builds and works. I have it
>> working
>> in speech-dispatcher with Orca as I write this.
>>
>>
>> Note that this is the DECTalk software version 4.x, the one that sounds
>> just
>> like the DECTalk Express from the 1990's, so anyone who needs hardware
>> speech
>> should feel right at home with this. No, this is not the 5.x DECTalk that
>> really sounds like crap. Have fun and enjoy, and I do hope they fix this
>> license soon. It would be good to have another truly free speech
>> synthesizer to
>> play with, and this is definitely a huge step in that direction.
>>
>> ~ Kyle
>>
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