[HN Gopher] Voice.ai denies claim it violated open source softwa...
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       Voice.ai denies claim it violated open source software license
       requirements
        
       Author : consumer451
       Score  : 41 points
       Date   : 2023-02-18 20:12 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theregister.com)
        
       | skunkworker wrote:
       | Past discussion with a link to Ronsor's blog post.
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34681636
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       | It looks like the source code of 0.1.25.1 has still not been
       | released yet publicly.
        
       | voakbasda wrote:
       | They are required to provide the full source code for the
       | versions that included the GPLv3 code. There is no exemption to
       | this requirement. Removing the code is not sufficient; it
       | shipped, so they must abide by its terms.
       | 
       | Otherwise, the relevant package authors should take them to
       | court, because this should be a slam dunk win. We need more
       | precedents for these licenses, and I am almost entirely certain
       | that there will be lawyers that would take the case pro bono.
        
       | vore wrote:
       | "In parallel, the user had joined our public Discord server and
       | engaged in conversations on how to violate the product's terms of
       | service, such as reverse engineering, which led to a ban by our
       | volunteer community moderators. This was completely unrelated to
       | the source code request, which no one, especially not our Discord
       | moderation team, was aware of at the time.
       | 
       | This is a particularly funny reason from Voice.ai, since by
       | linking against LGPL libraries, Ronsor was absolutely permitted
       | to reverse engineer the binary under the terms of the LGPL:
       | You may convey a Combined Work under terms of your choice that,
       | taken together, effectively do not restrict modification of the
       | portions of the Library contained in the Combined Work and
       | reverse engineering for debugging such modifications, [...]
       | 
       | I hope the rightsholders sue them for this scummy behavior.
        
       | encryptluks2 wrote:
       | [dead]
        
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