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Re:Silero V3: fast high-quality text-to-speech in 20 languag... by kevmo314 on Monday June 20, 2022 @09:42PM (#31818801)
A lot of these comments are speaking on behalf of small projects and small companies who cannot afford to invest any money in litigation. So

> anyone hardly cares about licenses

is patently not true. If we are convinced that corporations steal and therefore CC-NC is acceptable, then is the intent of this project to only service corporations? Because it seems quite dangerous for individual projects.

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Re:Silero V3: fast high-quality text-to-speech in 20 languag... by snakers41 on Monday June 20, 2022 @10:15PM (#31819006)
> then is the intent of this project to only service corporations?

One of the intents is NOT to service corporations for free or promote such services.

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Re:Silero V3: fast high-quality text-to-speech in 20 languag... by kevmo314 on Monday June 20, 2022 @10:37PM (#31819160)
As you said, corporations steal all the time, so they're able to use this "for free". But since I'm not willing to steal, I can't use this for any sort of project because commercial activity is not well-defined as the root comment points out. Ironically, that intent doesn't seem to line up with the result.
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Re:Silero V3: fast high-quality text-to-speech in 20 languag... by snakers41 on Monday June 20, 2022 @11:35PM (#31819558)
Yeah, and instead of contacting the authors directly, you are making a public case about how unfair the NC license is.
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