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D. Anthony Patrick <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: other
Other License: I think that I either want the GPL or LGPL.  Here\'s what I want 
to be able to do:

-I want people to be able to connect Analaca to non-GPL, yet free, resources.  
For instance, I myself would like to connect Analaca to BeVocal\'s developer 
resources and do some fresh VoiceXML stuff.

-I\'d like to be able to consult with companies and build modules for Analaca 
to connect to their internal resources;  here it\'s not really about freeing 
the code, its about exposing their proprietary information by the disclosure of 
their business logic and processes

Outside of the above, I don\'t want people to be able to better the Analaca 
base without contributing those changes back to the community.

Could someone counsel me on which of the two licences I need to go with?  I\'m 
thinking the Lesser GPL.  HOWEVER, could people just license the modules that 
they develop SEPARATELY from the rest of Analaca?
Package: Analaca Natural Language Computing Agent
System name: analaca
Type: non-GNU

Description:
The Analaca project provides a natural language computing agent, or rather, a 
framework for building an autonomous computing agent using speech as its 
primary user interface for command entry and response.  The project will define 
an API providing methods for the following:  accessing permanent data storage, 
a \"brain\", containing past parameters and success/fail data for specific 
tasks;  speech recognition and synthesis abstraction for available 
license-compatible engines providing these services;  developing modules to 
execute specific tasks, some of which will be developed by core Analaca 
developers, though many will be contributed by the community (hopefully).  At 
this point, \"artificial intelligence\", as in the ability of Analaca to figure 
out how to do new tasks on its own, is not planned, though it is welcomed.  It 
is currently limited due to a lack of expertise in AI by its primary developer.



Other Software Required:
Planned support for CMU\'s Sphinx2 (http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sphinx/) for 
speech recognition and CMU\'s Flite (http://www.cmuflite.org) and Edinburgh 
University\'s Festival for speech synthesis.  Support for the native OS TTS in 
Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows may be added but will not be recommended or 
automatically installed in accordance with the rules of this site.

Other Comments:
Starting a company offering support for Analaca would be great, but I\'m not 
planning it right now.  I\'m more interested in getting it running myself so I 
can check mail and read slashdot while I\'m washing dishes.  I\'m also hoping 
that it can help get me in to CMU as a transfer student to finish my undergrad, 
and possibly meet, and/or work in the lab(s) of, Kevin Lenzo and Alan Black.  
That is my motivation.  I\'d also like to meet RMS.