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coqui-ai / TTS

🐸💬 - a deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech, battle-tested in research and production
http://coqui.ai
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[Feature request] Move to MIT License #3587

Open geofurb opened 9 months ago

geofurb commented 9 months ago

The company is shutting down and can no longer license this project for commercial purposes or benefit from such licensing. Suggest moving to MIT license for more permissive modification and redistribution by the community.

mahimairaja commented 9 months ago

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arnaublanco commented 9 months ago

I agree.

daemon commented 9 months ago

+1

I don't mean to jump to conclusions, but I hope the founders don't develop a "ship dies with the captain" mentality that happens so frequently.

rose07 commented 9 months ago

This website is also owned by Microsoft. You can give it a try

https://tts.byylook.com/ai/text-to-speech

metal3d commented 8 months ago

I completely agree. The model and the use of the model is a bit too restrictive now the enterprise is shutting down.

BTW: Is there any page explaining why they stopped? And if the project may live with the community?

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geofurb commented 7 months ago

Wanted to re-up this, @erogol @JRMeyer @kdavis-coqui

eginhard commented 7 months ago

The codebase is licensed under MPL 2.0 which is fairly permissive and allows commercial use already. As for the XTTS model license, previous comments indicate that it's unlikely to change.

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geofurb commented 5 months ago

Bump

mantrakp04 commented 5 months ago

Any updates, even the link to purchase one is not working

daemon commented 5 months ago

The (unofficial) legal opinion that I'm aware of is that these models can be treated as public domain, based on these answers:

Who will own the IP of Coqui (& licensing rights) after the shutdown? Answer: noone

mantrakp04 commented 5 months ago

The (unofficial) legal opinion that I'm aware of is that these models can be treated as public domain, based on these answers:

Who will own the IP of Coqui (& licensing rights) after the shutdown? Answer: noone

So as of now can we consider xtts to be under public domain? I mean its still very unclear tho, i hope smone from the coqui team clarify this

dhoesele commented 4 months ago

Bump

arnaublanco commented 4 months ago

There's nothing we can do :(

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metal3d commented 2 months ago

So here is an activity, damned bot

medemi68 commented 1 month ago

Yeah this is getting ridiculous. If they’re abandoning it, they need to make it clear. It’s pretty cowardly to do what they’re doing right now.

eginhard commented 1 month ago

The licenses are already clearly stated (MPL 2.0 for the code, CPML for the XTTS model). I wouldn't expect these to change since the company has shut down.

medemi68 commented 4 weeks ago

The licenses are already clearly stated (MPL 2.0 for the code, CPML for the XTTS model). I wouldn't expect these to change since the company has shut down.

I get that, but they really should open source the model or make it more permissive. I'm actually kind of surprised that they were able to even sell commercial licenses since I think some of the training data is CC-BY-NC 4.0. I can't remember which one I saw that mentioned that.

MikeRich88 commented 1 week ago

Pre-emptive 🖕🖕🖕 for stale bot.