Bug#167189: ITP: mbrola -- Mbrola is a "free", multilingual (25 languages at the moment) speech synthesis, it is not open source but has a really nice quality and is very important for brlspeak (debian for visual deficient) so we can have a software speech synthesis mode
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 08:27:55AM +0100, sebfrance@ifrance.com wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Version: N/A; reported 2002-10-31
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name : mbrola
> Version : 3.01h
> Upstream Author : Dr Thierry Dutoit <mbrola@tcts.fpms.ac.be>
> * URL : http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html
> * License : http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola/mbrlicen.html
OK, just checked this out.
> Description : Mbrola is a "free", multilingual (25 languages at the
> moment) speech synthesis, it is not open source but has a really nice
> quality and is very important for brlspeak (debian for visual deficient)
> so we can have a software speech synthesis mode
Just to save others time checking out the license, mbrola is not DFSG free
because:
"This Program may not be sold or incorporated into any product which is
sold without prior permission from the Author."
"If you wish to incorporate the Program into other free programs whose
distribution conditions are different, write to the Author to ask for
permission."
"Permission is granted to use this Program for non-commercial,
non-military purposes ..."
Also, I don't see provision for making changes to the code in the license.
It is important to clear this up before packaging this for non-free because
we'll need to make changes to the distributed code to package it, make bug
fixes, etc.
Ben
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