Bug#403619: RFP: languagetool -- rule-based language checker
Hi,
Am Montag, 18. Dezember 2006 14:53 schrieb Kurt Roeckx:
> Package name: languagetool
> Version: 0.8.6
> Upstream Author: Daniel Naber (naber at danielnaber de)
> URL: http://www.danielnaber.de/languagetool
> License: Mostly LGPL, also some BSD, Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
isn't that non-free?
> Description: A rule-based language checker
>
> This is a rule-based language checker for which a rule is defined.
> It can detect errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect e.g.
> mixing up there/their, no/now etc. It can also detect a limited
> amount of grammar mistakes.
>
> It currently has support for English, German, Polish, and Dutch, and
> limited support for French, Spanish, and Italian.
>
> It can be used standalone, as plugin for openoffice.org, with LyX,
> in java applications and as standalone web server.
Doesn't build with free Java. ("requires Java 1.5 or later")
> I think this would be a useful thing to have in Debian, since we
> currently don't seem to have something simular. But I have no
> intention to package this myself.
I looked at it once, and might try it again when we have the free Java stack
here. (Only possible, though when we have the compiler and the JVM I guess)
Regards,
Rene
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