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Subject: Re: voices files we can use for rockbox

Re: voices files we can use for rockbox

From: David Pedersen <dav-ped_at_frisurf.no>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 13:19:09 -0500

Maybe you should forward the whole of this thread to the company, and they
would have some hours of interesting thoughts about their cruelty...

Funny, that a company will spend tons of time and money, on developing
relative good voices, just to tell the customers: You are not alowed to use
this for anything...

Guess you have to go to university to understand that way of resoning... :P


----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Stenberg" <daniel_at_rockbox.org>
To: "Rockbox" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 1:39 AM
Subject: Re: voices files we can use for rockbox


> On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, David Wright wrote:
>
>> I don't understand how this can be a legal issue because the voice clips
>> are similar to any recording that people place on the net. The copy of
>> the software used to create these voice clips is licensed, so why can't
>> these files be available to the public as a result of one person sharing
>> his recordings?
>
> There's no need to ask us these questions because we all feel the same
> way.
>
> Still, when you get a mail from a company (regardless of the situation),
> threatening with legal actions, I think it would be stupid not to act and
> try to sort out the problem.
>
> This issue has not been closed. It is very much alive and the final words
> have not been said about it yet.
>
> --
> Daniel Stenberg -- http://www.rockbox.org/ -- http://daniel.haxx.se/
>
>
>
Received on 2006-02-03

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