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Subject: Re: ooo-myspell at apache-extras.org
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On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Pedro F. Giffuni <giffunip@tutopia.com> w=
rote:
> Hi Gianluca;
> Is your work related to this version?
> http://members.xoom.it/trasforma/ispell/
> Just wondering if we have to contact them too.
> With respect to Hunspell vs. Myspell, there is still no decision and I th=
inkthat will have to wait until the Oracle SGA is in.
> HunSpell is copyleft so we cannot include it.=C2=A0We could include MySpe=
lland the free (less-restricted) dictionaries we=C2=A0can get and have an o=
ptionfor Hunspell, or we could make Myspell an=C2=A0extension.

HunSpell code is tri-licensed under GPL/LGPL/MPL.

If I understand corectly, Apache considers MPL 1.1 to be "weak
copyleft" and we have some limited ways (as a binary of using it in
our releases.

See here for details:

http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-b

Individual dictionaries, however, can have their own license as you
know.  So there may be some that we cannot include in the release, but
we can still point the user to.


> Both would work=C2=A0for me, I just wanted to make sure MySpell could bep=
reserved before=C2=A0the Oracle OpenOffice site disappears.
> cheers,
> Pedro.
> --- On Thu, 9/22/11, Gianluca Turconi <inbox@letturefantastiche.com> wrot=
e:
>
> From: Gianluca Turconi <inbox@letturefantastiche.com>
> Subject: Re: ooo-myspell at apache-extras.org
> To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org, giffunip@tutopia.com
> Date: Thursday, September 22, 2011, 10:41 AM
>
> 2011/9/22 Pedro F. Giffuni <giffunip@tutopia.com>
>
>
> The case of the italian support is indeed "special",
>
> and is something I am particularly interested in. The
>
> linguistico project seems to be particularly political:
>
> they have this long discourse on how "OpenSource is
>
> evil, free is good". Maybe the author of the original
>
> ispell dictionary is more condescending.
> I'm the original author of the Italian OOo dictionary and I wouldn't have=
 any issue in re-licensing the original MySpell dictionary as far as it is =
included in a AOOo user-oriented binary release, if and when it will be rel=
eased.
>
>
> However, the Italian dictionary has a 10-years long history of improvemen=
t under LGPL/GPL and several different co-author. The current version is si=
mply a lot better than the original one whose copyright rights I own.
>
>
> So, the re-licensing would be, IMO, just a regression. Of course, a less =
complete dictionary is always better than nothing, from a user point of vie=
w. ;-)
>
> However, I haven't understood yet (this list is sometimes really overwhel=
ming), what linguistic tools will be used in AOO:
>
>
> 1) MySpell or Hunspell?
> 2) for hyphenation?
>
> Regards,
>
> Gianluca
> --
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tasy, horror, noir, narrativa fantastica e tradizionale:
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