* Paul Sutton <paulsut...@disroot.org> [2021-05-06 10:51]: > One problem is that I think there are now lots of patents on speech > recognition. Does this make using speech recognition harder to implement, > we have text to speech too, could that be implemented at the UI level, even > in menus or dialogue boxes.
The way to go is not to put attention on patents, just as written in the Free System Distribution Guidelines https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html where it says: ,---- | Patents | | It is effectively impossible for free software developers and | distributors to know whether or not a given piece of software | infringes any patents: there are too many of them, they vary from | country to country, they're often worded so as to make it hard to tell | what they do or don't cover, and it isn't easy to tell which ones are | valid. Therefore, we don't generally ask free system distributions to | exclude software because of possible threats from patents. On the | other hand, we also don't object if a distributor chooses to omit some | software in order to avoid patent risk. `---- Consider that if ANY patent is registered, it most probably is not registered in all countries. Distributions may distribute from various countries. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns Sign an open letter in support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/ https://rms-support-letter.github.io/ _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss