Re: Speech Dispatcher

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Hello Hynek:

If the Speech Dispatcher core maintains a clean separation between 
itself and the modules it uses (in other words, if they are separate 
processes), then you are correct that there is no problem.  Maybe I had 
the wrong impression, I thought the modules were linked into the same 
process space, i.e. that some of the Speech Dispatcher GPL code had to 
call directly into the modules? 

Bill

Hynek Hanke wrote:

> Bill Haneman píše v St 28. 09. 2005 v 13:53 +0100:
>  
>
> > Because Speech Dispatcher uses GPL and not LGPL, it is limited in terms 
> > of what drivers it can support due to license incompatibility issues.
> >    
>
> Hello Bill,
>
> I don't understand how is the licensing of Speech Dispatcher core
> and its documentation related to the licensing of its modules?
>
> The modules are standalone applications (it's well possible to use
> them without Speech Dispatcher, e.g. from command line) and
> IPC (pipes) is used for communication with Speech Dispatcher.
> You can also run Speech Dispatcher without any modules (using just
> the ``testing'' option for output). There is no direct dependency
> in either way and having both included in the same package is a matter
> of convenience.
>
> The license of the modules is the choice of the author. (As well as the
> license of the clients.)
>
> With regards,
> Hynek Hanke
> Brailcom
>
>