Hello, I am sorry if this has been brought up before, I don't see a way to search the archives on Sourceforge. I did search on Google, though, but nothing came up.
I've discovered LanguageTool just recently, and I think it is just awesome! I've already integrated it into our (commercial) project, which took only a couple hours due to good documetation and a nice design. And that is including tweaking which rules I need activated. On to my question: I did read the license related documentation, in particular http://www.languagetool.org/download/README.txt It would appear that I could use LanguageTool under LPGL for checking English and German. However, looking into the JAR file "language-de-2.2.jar" which I downloaded from the linked Maven page, it seems that the dictionary itself is GPL! Why is this mentioned nowhere in the top-level documentation, given that support for German seems to be particularily mature? Is it because the dictionary does not affect binary code because it is not "linked" in the classical sense of the GPL? If including this JAR would indeed affect our application, is there an alternative Hunspell dictionary for German that could be used? No version of our software with LanguageTool integration has yet been released publically, but we would not want to be forced to release under GPL. Thank you very much and best regards, -Stephan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60133471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Languagetool-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/languagetool-devel
