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Bug#475116: marked as done (ITP: asterisk-espeak -- eSpeak text-to-speech module for Asterisk)

Your message dated Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:13:19 +1000
with message-id <20091129201319.GW32731@daedalus.andrew.net.au>
and subject line Re: Bug#475116: Status of packaging asterisk-espeak?
has caused the Debian Bug report #475116,
regarding ITP: asterisk-espeak -- eSpeak text-to-speech module for Asterisk
to be marked as done.

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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Andrew Pollock <apollock@debian.org>

* Package name    : asterisk-espeak
  Version         : 0.4
  Upstream Author : Francois Aucamp <faucamp@csir.co.za>
* URL             : https://sourceforge.net/projects/asterisk-espeak
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : eSpeak text-to-speech module for Asterisk

 This package provides the "eSpeak" dialplan application, which allows you to
 use the eSpeak TTS Engine with Asterisk.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

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On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 08:58:38PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 03:31:26AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> >On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 02:35:20PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>What is the status of packaging asterisk-espeak?  Are you still 
> >>interested?  Do you perhaps half-baked packages lying around 
> >>somewhere that others (like me) eager to play with it could grab and 
> >>unofficially (re)package?
> >>
> >
> >The package was rejected by ftp-master because of licensing conflicts 
> >in the source, and upstream has never gotten back to me about doing a 
> >new release addressing those issues. I figure it's not worth having a 
> >package with a totally unresponsive upstream.
> 
> Interesting.  Thanks for clarifying.
> 
> For the record (since you didn't elaborate): It seems the licensing 
> conflict is that asterisk-espeak is licensed as GPL-2 (and no newer!) 
> similarly to Asterisk itself, while espeak is licensed as GPL-3+.  In 
> other words espeak cannot be linked with with Asterisk :-/
 
Well the sole problem that was called out in the rejection was that the
README file said "GPL 3 or later", but everything else said "GPL 2". The
copyright assertions in the source only say "GPL 2".
 
> Now that we have the updated status tied to the actual bugreport, I 
> suggest you close it, to not having it hanging around with potentially 
> more people than just me foolishly waiting for progress that will not 
> happen.  :-)
> 

No worries. Closing.

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