Not yet 
Or maybe you can believe them when they say
This temporary license is intended to protect our intellectual property while we work towards a more open and permissive license. This license is subject to be replaced with one that will grant you more rights, not less.
Iodé did something similar: their source was closed, until they got it to a point where it was fit to be opened, and they had worked out a way of being both open / free and commercially viable.
I generally believe what I see, so we will see if Futo eventually adopts an open source license.
You are right. It is fair to take their word.
So, FUTO STT finally got a new license and it’s not open source.
Confirmed by contacting them: “As you noted, our license (which actually just changed) does not allow unlimited commercial use without an additional license.”
but it still is open source, right? It just can’t be sold or used by /e/OS by default - Gitlab
that is disappointing, but maybe they can still offer a reasonable deal to /e/OS. @GaelDuval
Wrong, it is ‘source first’. (A term defined by the FUTO devs)
‘Open Source’ has a clear definition which is managed by the OSI. This is not that.
Neither is it ‘source available’. But at least it is a a bit more libre than that.
Whether Gael wants it in /e/OS is probably dependent on how much he wants to pay lawyers in the event the FUTO might changes the terms in the future.
Dicio author was active last few weeks, did a refactor and registers the app now as speech-input service - System wide STT service by nebkrid · Pull Request #161 · Stypox/dicio-android · GitHub - there are debug builds to test, I guess a new release is a few days away.
At least through the Konele keyboard and Dicio set as backend I can use it as general input to any text field. It’s Vosk based (not Whisper).
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