@mpldr They allow gpl v3 in the app store though. So surely they could: upload espeak to the app store. Install it as a standard system component (from the app store) that could be uninstalled. It could even be a choice at flash time via their website via a checkbox (do you want this or not?) they have much more experience with negotiating complex licenses than myself, and they have decided that via the app store they can distribute gpl v3. It took me all of 2 seconds to come up with a flow that would allow people to still have the choice to not include it, but would enable those that need it to simply check a box to get what they need. As for the configure it by default bit, talkback will use the first detected d-boot enabled speech engine installed, unless they broke it in their fork. No configuration needed.