Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2

2012-03-04 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Mar 04, 2012, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote about Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2: Hi Nadav, It's a question of how you look at the world - the way it should be or the way it is. The way it is (or was), there was no way either LibreOffice or OpenOffice would ever be GPL and so Hspell did

Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2

2012-03-03 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.ilwrote: Dan Kenigsberg and I are proud to present version 1.2 of Hspell, the free Hebrew spell-checker and morphological analyzer. I am, as ever, in bewildered awe of this kind of commitment to the project and the ability

Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2

2012-03-03 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
-contributed code. - yba On Sat, 3 Mar 2012, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 06:56:39 +0200 From: Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com To: Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il Cc: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2 Nadav, Dan, First - thank you

Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2

2012-03-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sat, Mar 03, 2012, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2: I am, as ever, in bewildered awe of this kind of commitment to the project and the ability to maintain and continue to develop it in the face of temporary difficulties like day jobs, families, and so on. Thanks. Indeed

Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2

2012-03-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sat, Mar 03, 2012, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote about Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2: Regarding the license - AGPL sounds like a great idea, but It is hard for me to imagine gmail, for example, with a powered by Hspell button. I am afraid they will prefer to keep using the outdated version 1.1

Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2

2012-03-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sat, Mar 03, 2012, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote about Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2: Nadav and Dan under the GPL license. If the licence had been at least LGPL the code would have found its way into OpenOffice, which would have given OpenOffice an advantage in the Hebrew market and might have

Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2

2012-03-03 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
. - yba On Sat, 3 Mar 2012, Nadav Har'El wrote: Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 22:56:20 +0200 From: Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il To: Jonathan Ben Avraham y...@tkos.co.il Cc: Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com, linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2 On Sat, Mar 03, 2012

Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2

2012-03-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 10:56:20PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: Frankly, I never understood why OpenOffice not just GPL. Why the insistance to allow Sun and IBM to create proprietary versions of it? OO.o was triple-licensed GPL+LGPL+MPL. The MPL is generally more liberal than the LGPL - each

Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2

2012-03-03 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
As usual, because Hspell is open-source, proprietary software writers have the option to fully evaluate every aspect of Hspell, and its suitability for their product, before they decide to use it. But if they do use it, they should indeed not use the AGPL but rather negotiate a special

Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2

2012-03-03 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.ilwrote: On Sat, Mar 03, 2012, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote about Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2: Regarding the license - AGPL sounds like a great idea, but It is hard for me to imagine gmail, for example, with a powered

Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2

2012-03-02 Thread Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
Nadav, Dan, First - thank you! I have no idea how you find the time to work on Hspell along with raising families. I think the notable date and hour of this email give a hint :) Regarding the license - AGPL sounds like a great idea, but It is hard for me to imagine gmail, for example, with a

Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2

2012-03-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Nadav, On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:01:50 +0200 Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012, Shlomi Fish wrote about Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2: OK, so you have made Hspell under the Affero General Public Licence version 3. Will it help in promoting the open-source

Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2

2012-02-29 Thread Moish
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Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2

2012-02-29 Thread Ari Becker
Thank you - Hspell 1.1 now flagged as out of date on Arch, should be updated soon. -Ari On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Moish mo...@mln.co.il wrote: Thank you ! Moish __**_ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

Announce: Hspell 1.2

2012-02-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
Dan Kenigsberg and I are proud to present version 1.2 of Hspell, the free Hebrew spell-checker and morphological analyzer. You can find the new release in the project's homepage: http://hspell.ivrix.org.il/ Over two years have passed since our previous release. In that time, we

Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2

2012-02-28 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Nadav, On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:36:02 +0200 Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote: Dan Kenigsberg and I are proud to present version 1.2 of Hspell, the free Hebrew spell-checker and morphological analyzer. You can find the new release in the project's homepage:

Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2

2012-02-28 Thread Amos Shapira
Thanks very much for your work. The WHATSNEW page has Hebrew characters appear as question marks under the default UTF-8 encoding. Switching to Windows-1255 seems to have fixed that (I'm not 100% sure about the direction of the single Hebrew words). Cheers, --Amos On 29 February 2012 08:36,

Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2

2012-02-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012, Shlomi Fish wrote about Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2: OK, so you have made Hspell under the Affero General Public Licence version 3. Will it help in promoting the open-source nature (or freedom) of web-services? Let's see. Let me start by admitting that I don't know. We