Hi, Kevin.Hendricks wrote: > >Upstream has also some converters: > > > >http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/lingucomponent/dictionary.html > >(in the zip hidden in the link "standalone copy of myspell") > > > Yes and none of them are perfect. Many leave embedded tabs in places > that freak out myspell. > The first step in doing any conversion is to do the equivalent of an > emacs untabify on the file and then audit the entries to make sure the > correct counts are given throughout. I just saw them. Never tried them. > >I thought about packaging the libmyspell and the utilities but the > >license situation is unclear. Maybe I'll mail Kevin in the next days > >to resolve that. > > My how time flies! .... I tried to make this whole thing as "free" as > possible (both in beer and speech). > > MySpell is convered under a normal BSD license with absolutely no > advertising clause. It is covered under your choice of LGPL or SiSSL > if you so choose and via a submission to Kevin Atkinson's aspell, Mr. > Stallman himself granted it GPL status after asking me a bunch of > questions about how I wrote it. > Also, it was used as the basis for Mozilla in a completely rewritten > variant (with lots of Mozilla string classes flying around and io!) and > that version is available under the Mozilla tri-license. > > I just don't know how to make it any "free-er" than that. OK, that resolves all things. > My whole purpose in writing it to begin with was to better understand > affix compression (a learning exercise for me). > > So please do whatever you want with it. You will get no grief from me. > > No matter how it evolves, all I would like is to be mentioned in the > credits as its original author (a request not a requirement) and that > the original ispell authors be granted their dues as well. It's already mentioned in the README in the zip as I can see. > Hope this makes things a bit clearer. > > BTW, MySpell is statically linked with OOo and has no other interface > for parsing other forms of text and so is NO replacement for aspell in > any way. Its sole purpose was to fill a gap in the needs of OOo (and as > it turns out mozilla in a highly modified form) and anyone else who > needs or wants it. So I am not sure there is any demand for a library > version (you would be better off using Aspell for that). I thought primarily about the utils (are they under BSD as well?), secondly about the libmyspell.a Regards, Rene -- .''`. Rene Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' rene@debian.org | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerprint: 41FA F208 28D4 7CA5 19BB 7AD9 F859 90B0 248A EB73
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