@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ versions:
   gpl-sources:
     filename: gpl-sources.tar
     description: piper1-gpl and eSpeak NG (both compiled from source)
+- version: 1.8.0
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+From ca2ccdcef11ec0be6e0375444dda7420f99ee856 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Ludovic Henry <git@ludovic.dev>
+Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2026 23:47:02 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] Widen license_files to cover the statically linked eSpeak NG
+
+setup.py names license_files explicitly, so setuptools' default
+LICEN[CS]E*/COPYING* glob never applies and a licence file dropped in
+beside the existing ones is silently ignored.
+
+CMakeLists.txt builds eSpeak NG from source as an ExternalProject and
+links it statically into piper/espeakbridge, and the wheel also ships
+eSpeak NG's own espeak-ng-data. eSpeak NG is GPL-3.0-or-later with
+Apache-2.0, BSD-2-Clause and UCD parts, and none of its four licence
+files reach dist-info/licenses/ in any piper_tts wheel on PyPI -- this is
+not riscv64-specific, every platform's wheel is missing them.
+
+Widening the second entry to licenses/* lets COPYING.espeak-ng and its
+siblings, staged in licenses/ during the build, reach
+dist-info/licenses/ with no other packaging change. The existing
+licenses/LICENSE.g2pW-Apache-2.0 is still matched by the same glob.
+
+Upstream-Status: To upstream [not yet submitted; the gap exists in every piper_tts wheel on PyPI regardless of architecture, so it needs a maintainer discussion about which eSpeak NG licence files to ship rather than a drive-by PR]
+
+Signed-off-by: Ludovic Henry <git@ludovic.dev>
+---
+ setup.py | 6 ++++--
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
+index dc8b6cf..932f9d7 100644
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -46,8 +46,10 @@ setup(
+     description="Fast and local neural text-to-speech engine",
+     url="http://github.com/OHF-voice/piper1-gpl",
+     license="GPL-3.0-or-later",
+-    # g2pW is Apache-2.0; see src/piper/g2pw_onnx.py.
+-    license_files=["COPYING", "licenses/LICENSE.g2pW-Apache-2.0"],
++    # g2pW is Apache-2.0; see src/piper/g2pw_onnx.py. The glob also picks up the
++    # licences of eSpeak NG, which CMakeLists.txt links into espeakbridge and
++    # whose data this package ships.
++    license_files=["COPYING", "licenses/*"],
+     author="The Home Assistant Authors",
+     author_email="hello@home-assistant.io",
+     keywords=["home", "assistant", "tts", "text-to-speech"],
+-- 
+2.43.0
+