[Accessibility] Re: [Kde-accessibility] IBM TTS SDK

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Gary Cramblitt wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 January 2006 10:14, George Kraft wrote:
>> FYI, this past December I released an open source IBM TTS SDK for TTS
>> dependent projects to compile with.  This SDK project only provides the
>> ABIs for compiling and no runtime logic.
>>
>> http://ibmtts-sdk.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> The eci.h header file and libibmeci.so stub library will enable your
>> open source packages to be built to use the Linux IBM TTS Runtime.  The
>> Linux distributions could precompile various components with the SDK so
>> that the runtime will work when installed.
[...]
> The SDK is licensed according to the IBM
> Common Public License

And that's the problem, as the CPL is incompatible with the GPL 2, so no 
GPL'ed KDE application can use it... (Maybe it might be compatible with the 
GPL 3, but that doesn't matter atm). See:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses

Cheers,
Reinhold

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