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 thinkthat will have to wait until the Oracle SGA is in. HunSpell is copyleft so we cannot include it. We could include MySpelland the free (less-restricted) dictionaries we can get and have an optionfor Hunspell, or we could make Myspell an extension. Both would work for me, I just wanted to make sure MySpell could bepreserved before the Oracle OpenOffice site disappears. cheers, Pedro. --- On Thu, 9/22/11, Gianluca Turconi <in...@letturefantastiche.com> wrote:
From: Gianluca Turconi <in...@letturefantastiche.com> Subject: Re: ooo-myspell at apache-extras.org To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org, giffu...@tutopia.com Date: Thursday, September 22, 2011, 10:41 AM 2011/9/22 Pedro F. Giffuni <giffu...@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 released. However, the Italian dictionary has a 10-years long history of improvement under LGPL/GPL and several different co-author. The current version is simply 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 view. ;-) However, I haven't understood yet (this list is sometimes really overwhelming), what linguistic tools will be used in AOO: 1) MySpell or Hunspell? 2) for hyphenation? Regards, Gianluca -- Lettura gratuita o acquisto di libri e racconti di fantascienza, fantasy, horror, noir, narrativa fantastica e tradizionale: http://www.letturefantastiche.com/
