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Ibmtts: Could not create ECI instance.


From: Hynek Hanke
Subject: Ibmtts: Could not create ECI instance.
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:53:51 +0100

S?bastien Hinderer wrote:
> The thing which surprises me a bit is that the Binary debian package
> does not contain the IBM driver. I'm wondering whether this is intended,
> e.g. for some legal reasons, or whether this has perhaps been forgotten.
>   

Hello Sebastien,

if I remember correctly, this is because of Debian policy. The IBM
driver needs to compile against some library, either the original
or a special development kit which is released under LGPL.

The problem is this development kit doesn't really do anything
useful without the proprietary synthesizer and thus a package
for it cannot be included in Debian. As a consequence, the IBM TTS
driver can't be compiled in Debian and can't enter the Debian
package.

I hope all works well. The IBM TTS driver is known to have
some problems.

With regards,
Hynek





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