New Czech/Slovak TTS module for speech dispatcher

[Daniel Tihelka]

Hallo.

My idea was to include modules/speechtech_tts.c (GPL) part of 
speech-dispatcher distribution (like the ibmtts.c, ivona.c and other 
modules). You can modify the code as you wish.

The "real" SpeechTech TTS library (without speech-dispatcher module, just the 
TTS library 'libSpeechTechTTS.so') will be downloadable from 
www.speechtech.cz (it is not there now, I have to finish the build of a 
package), and once installed, it will be available to speech-dispatcher. So, 
no GPL code will be included within the library binary package distributed by 
SpeechTech. 

Nevertheless, thanks for the link. I do not understand it very much now, I 
have to read it very carefully in a quiet time.

Best regards,
D. Tihelka

On Tuesday 04 of August 2009, Milan Zamazal wrote:
> >>>>> "DT" == Daniel Tihelka <dtihelka at kky.zcu.cz> writes:
>
>     DT> The module is GPL, of course, and it calls functions from the
>     DT> non-GPL SpeechTech TTS library (I suppose that this does not
>     DT> violate the GPL licence).
>
> See http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs.
>
> I *think* there is no problem with the source code.  But if you want to
> distribute binary code there *is* a problem.  If the module is
> completely your own work you should add an exception as suggested in the
> link above (and you really should, it avoids a lot of problems).  If the
> module uses parts of another GPL software (not copyrighted by you,
> e.g. another Speech Dispatcher module), you must get permission from all
> the copyright holders to add such an exception.


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