Anyone know of good FOSS and privacy friendly text to speech apps for Android? Want to listen to my notes

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    4 months ago

    How is it suspect? They call it source first or some bullshit but the point of the liscence is to stop people from putting fake futo apps with ads on the play store.

    But the code is still completely open, you can look at it as much as you want

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      4 months ago

      OP asked for FOSS, and if this keyboard had met OPs other criteria, it would have failed the FOSS check (it’s a source-available license). It’s also a roll-your-own license and a very very short one at that. It’s missing a lot of key protections for both the company and the consumer.

      I’m pretty steadfast on using GPL software wherever i can, especially for something as mission-critical as a keyboard. Non-gpl projects have a tendency to get bought up and relicensed or corrupted in some other way over time (sometimes a very long time, but time nevertheless). I’ll make exceptions for things that are less critical, like games, but core system must be GPL or offer equivalent protections for the end user.

      Source-available is still good for auditability though, making it more secure in the short-term.

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          4 months ago

          I just realized, you’re an ML user. Aren’t you supposed to be hyper-communist? Stallman was probably one of the most communist in terms of software development.

          You are a walking contradiction.

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        4 months ago

        Source available isnt the good term, people can still contribute to it and fork it.

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          4 months ago

          If it’s not source-available, then it’s somewhere between source-available and OSS - that license is very aggressively in favor of futo and against the general public.

          Just to clarify the scale:

          Best: FLOSS (GPL, etc)
          Better: FOSS (Apache, etc)
          Good: OSS (MIT, etc.)
          <–Futo is here
          Bad: Source-Available <–or here
          Worst: Closed-Source/Proprietary