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

[Karen Lewellen]

Josh,
you were the person asking why one could not just, without reasonable 
consent, just declare something is under a public license?
Clearly the person getting permission understands such would be illegal, 
they did not ask the question.



On Wed, 22 Feb 2023, Josh Kennedy wrote:

> It's not up to me to get the permission I forwarded the email but the
> person who needs to get the permission is quite busy this time of year so
> it may take a few months
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> On Wed, Feb 22, 2023, 00:51 mattias <mjonsson1986 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Seems josh dont realy understand the laws?
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>> *Från: *Karen Lewellen <klewellen at shellworld.net>
>> *Skickat: *den 22 februari 2023 06:01
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>> *Ämne: *Re: [DECtalk] Report of a successful use of dectalk with
>> graphical Linux.
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>> because that requires permission.
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>> why not get that permission from the individuals providing the source
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>> code?
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>> Anyone adding a general public license must have the right to do as much.
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>> On Tue, 21 Feb 2023, Josh Kennedy wrote:
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>>> Well why not just go on to its GitHub page and remove all the licenses
>> and
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>>> just replace them with the general public license?
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>>> On Tue, Feb 21, 2023, 23:17 Karen Lewellen <klewellen at shellworld.net>
>> wrote:
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>>>> Hi members,
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>>>> Sharing this post from the blind Linux users group.  Hope it generates a
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>>>> smile.
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>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
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>>>> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 22:59:35 -0500
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>>>> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
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>>>> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
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>>>> Subject: What a find! DECTalk!
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>>>> I'm happy to be in the fediverse right now. Looking through my
>> timeline, I
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>>>> just
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>>>> found a link to a Github repository that has DECTalk source code,
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>>>> apparently
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>>>> released by some of the original DECTalk developers.
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>>>> https://github.com/dectalk/dectalk
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>>>>
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>>>> The LICENSE file still has scary words like "proprietary" and
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>>>> "confidential"
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>>>> and "all rights reserved," but the source builds and works. I have it
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>>>> working
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>>>> in speech-dispatcher with Orca as I write this.
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>>>> Note that this is the DECTalk software version 4.x, the one that sounds
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>>>> just
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>>>> like the DECTalk Express from the 1990's, so anyone who needs hardware
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>>>> speech
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>>>> should feel right at home with this. No, this is not the 5.x DECTalk
>> that
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>>>> really sounds like crap. Have fun and enjoy, and I do hope they fix this
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>>>> license soon. It would be good to have another truly free speech
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>>>> synthesizer to
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>>>> play with, and this is definitely a huge step in that direction.
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>>>>
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>>>> ~ Kyle
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