Re: ooo-myspell at apache-extras.org

2011-09-27 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
FWIW, It may be like fitting a square peg in a round hole but there is something similar coming to Apache: http://incubator.apache.org/opennlp/index.html Pedro

Re: ooo-myspell at apache-extras.org

2011-09-26 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Pedro F. Giffuni giffu...@tutopia.com wrote: --- On Sat, 9/24/11, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: ... HunSpell code is tri-licensed under GPL/LGPL/MPL. That particular licensing scheme is rather weird: LGPL implies that it can become GPL so you could

Re: ooo-myspell at apache-extras.org

2011-09-25 Thread Gianluca Turconi
Rob Weir ha scritto: 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. Opera browser uses the same dictionaries of OOo and there is a dedicated wizard that allows the user

Re: ooo-myspell at apache-extras.org

2011-09-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 22/09/2011 Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: Hi Gianluca; Is your work related to this version? http://members.xoom.it/trasforma/ispell/ Just wondering if we have to contact them too. Whatever this is, it is widely unrelated to the dictionary currently included in OpenOffice.org 3.3. The best

Re: ooo-myspell at apache-extras.org

2011-09-24 Thread RGB ES
2011/9/24 Andrea Pescetti pesce...@openoffice.org But we need to open, at due time, a dedicated discussion on writing aids before saying that GPL dictionaries cannot be used. Shipping an older Italian dictionary (or no Italian dictionary at all) would be a huge regression and it would

Re: ooo-myspell at apache-extras.org

2011-09-24 Thread Rob Weir
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

Re: ooo-myspell at apache-extras.org

2011-09-24 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
+1 I don't want to send Apache back to the spell checker in OOo 2.x, and the LO guys have made a nice job creating independent Hunspell+lang dictionaries already. What I am doing with MySpell is just making sure it doesn't disappear so that if someone needs an alternative he/she/them won't have

Re: ooo-myspell at apache-extras.org

2011-09-24 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
--- On Sat, 9/24/11, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: ... HunSpell code is tri-licensed under GPL/LGPL/MPL. That particular licensing scheme is rather weird: LGPL implies that it can become GPL so you could just say dual licensed LGPL/MPL, and then, once you make something pluggable, the

Re: ooo-myspell at apache-extras.org

2011-09-22 Thread Gianluca Turconi
2011/9/21 Pedro F. Giffuni giffu...@tutopia.com If some of the dictionary files can be relicensed under an Apache License I would consider including them there too but I would prefer to keep any copyleft stuff out of the new project. BTW, is there any idea here about how to manage the

Re: ooo-myspell at apache-extras.org

2011-09-22 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Ciao Gianluca! I am afraid there's nothing as a systematic approach to this yet. When the new grant is in we can see which dictionaries SUN got an assignment for and relicense them under AL2. (From some bugzilla issues I've seen it's evident they did try to get the copyrights assigned). I think

Re: ooo-myspell at apache-extras.org

2011-09-22 Thread Gianluca Turconi
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

Re: ooo-myspell at apache-extras.org

2011-09-22 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
, 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