Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] MSE pcaudio.
Hello Martin. Now that the pcaudiolib trip has ended, if you agree, i will give my sentiments (if not, just do not read what follows). Jonathan Duddington, the creator of eSpeak did choose GPL license for his eSpeak code. I did ask him if he had plan to make it it LGPL, but no, this was not in his plan. So I **TOTALLY** respect this and did use eSpeak only as executable. But Jonathan also choose to use, as sound-output-library, a library without any license (Portaudio) , so even more permissive than a LGPL library. eSpeak-ng, who is a fork of eSpeak, IMHO, imposes the use of his GPL sound-output library. IMHO again, it is not fair, there is something different that the spirit of original eSpeak. Also, take a look at Pcaudiolib source and compare it with the Portaudio source. Huh, it is nearly a copy-paste (with some name-flavor for methods of Pulseaudio (that is LGPL)). My 0,1 cent: Pcaudiolib should rename his license into LGPL. Fre;D -- Sent from: http://mseide-msegui-talk.13964.n8.nabble.com/ -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot ___ mseide-msegui-talk mailing list mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mseide-msegui-talk
Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] MSE pcaudio.
> Nobody can use it in combination with closed source elements. Aaargh. OK, I will take the positive of that story: I went deep inside ALSA and Pulseaudio code and no more secret for me about those libs. By the way, if you decide to have your own MSE audio lib, I will test-help it with force. And to say all my feeling, I am not sure to have enough passion anymore to do it with FPC. It will give a library 100 (!) times bigger than gcc with poor float calculation. Fre;D -- Sent from: http://mseide-msegui-talk.13964.n8.nabble.com/ -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot ___ mseide-msegui-talk mailing list mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mseide-msegui-talk
Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] MSE pcaudio.
On Saturday 24 March 2018 08:49:03 Martin Schreiber wrote: > > Nobody can use it in combination with closed source elements. eSpeakNG > library is GPL too. I used it for MSEgui because it is possible to make a > GPL-ed speech server based on it which overcomes the GPL trap for > applications which use tassistivehandler. > A dedicated application wide assistive-speech server has additional > advantages compared with linking in the eSpeakNG library directly. > For pcaudiolib it is another case. It is useless for average MSEgui applications because it can not been combined with closed source elements. Martin -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot ___ mseide-msegui-talk mailing list mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mseide-msegui-talk
