Re: [g-a-devel] gnome-speech and proprietory software synthesizers.

[Luke Yelavich <themuso themuso com>]

At 08:38 PM 11/05/2004, Bill Haneman wrote:
> Hi Luke:
>
> The current architecture was designed to allow this (preparation of 
> separate gnome-speech packages with proprietary drivers).  I am unaware of 
> issues which prevent it, and believe that it may only require preparing 
> the appropriate ".spec" files.  Since none of the code we link directly to 
> in gnome-speech is GPL (it's all LGPL), I don't think there is a license 
> compatibility issue there either.  However, many distros won't co-package 
> binaries that link to proprietary code, so these packages would, as you 
> suggest, need to be add-ons in this case.

Right. What files exactly is one dealing with, that need to be packaged 
separately?

> Probably the packages should end up being something like 
> gnome-speech-core-0.3.rpm, gnome-speech-driver-fonix-0.3.rpm, etc. etc. 
> with one additional package per "optional" driver.  These can be added at 
> runtime with no problem, gnome-speech provides runtime recognition of new 
> drivers.

I knew about the licensing concerns.

Thanks
Luke