Hi, > From folks who have been in the ipmc longer and advise on whether this is a > category x dependency.
Looks like the question has already been answered, and it probably legal rather than incubator who would need to answer if we think it is an issue. 1. https://code.google.com/p/lucene-hunspell/ "Note: we do not aim to produce or include any of these language support files, which are available under a variety of licenses and maintained elsewhere. We aim to produce the language-independent code to support the file format, with features geared specifically towards full-text search." Here's some code that use it, note Apache license, this is equiv to our situation IMO. https://lucenenet.apache.org/docs/3.0.3/d2/da4/_hunspell_stem_filter_8cs_source.html 2. Apache Open Office actually distributes LGPL dictionaries in their binaries (much to my surprise). The OO bug on GPL dictionaries (include legal advice from the FSF on the issue) https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=65039 But this is probably more relevant: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-117 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-192 3. The a fair amount of discussion on legal mailing list about this - so the answer may already be there. http://markmail.org/search/?q=list%3Aorg.apache.legal+dictionary 4. Interesting asides / reading. some legal opinion on Hunspell dictionaries: http://lwn.net/Articles/481386/ Webster is a generic term for a dictionary and the dictionary is now actually public domain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster%27s_Dictionary#The_name_Webster_used_by_others 5. There are non GLP dictionaries available, some of the ones mozilla use for instance http://www.opentaal.org/bestanden http://sourceforge.net/projects/openoffice-lv/ http://files.akl.lt/ispell-lt/ ftp://scon155.phys.msu.ru/pub/russian/ispell/LICENSE Didn't find an English one however - so perhaps we should ship it with the Russian one above? :-) Justin
