On 2017-04-12 07:01, fredvs wrote:
Hello.
There is also a free-open-source project : espeak :
http://espeak.sourceforge.net
The licence is GNU General Public License so you may use the executable
like
you want.
The GPL is a restrictive license, so you may not use it like you want..
LGPL would be more close to "like you want" but not really ;-)
As you know, mit/bsd is really "like you want" license ;-)
So espeak really is a gpl 2/3 and not LGPL?
They are limiting their audience a lot...
I suppose if you just call the Exe and do piping this is not a violation
of the GPL according to Richard Stallman... even though, technically any
pipe is really using GPL code inside your exe just in a sort of
unscrupulous way to get around the restrictive license. IMO loading a
dll or piping in an exe is basically the same thing, but GPL lawyers
would likely say piping is okay but loading a dll is not.
Would still prefer if espeak was LGPL so there is no concern. Or,
modified lgpl/mit/bsd. But whatever
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