+1 I don't want to send Apache back to the spell checker in OOo 2.x, and the LO guys have made a nice job creating independent Hunspell+lang dictionaries already.
What I am doing with MySpell is just making sure it doesn't disappear so that if someone needs an alternative he/she/them won't have to start from scratch. FWIW, today I made my first and final release :-P. Pedro. --- On Sat, 9/24/11, Andrea Pescetti wrote: ... > On 22/09/2011 Pedro F. Giffuni > wrote: > > Hi Gianluca; > > Is your work related to this version? > > http://members.xoom.it/trasforma/ispell/ > > Just wondering if we have to contact them too. > > Whatever this is, it is widely unrelated to the dictionary > currently included in OpenOffice.org 3.3. The best starting > point for it is http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/dict-it > (note that the latest release is more recent than OOo 3.3 > and was supposed to be included in OOo 3.4 as expected to be > released by Oracle). > > The current version is GPL3 and it has a few copyright > holders (including Gianluca and myself), but we are sure > that some of the copyright holders will never give > permission to relicense their work. > > But we need to open, at due time, a dedicated discussion on > writing aids before saying that GPL dictionaries cannot be > used. Shipping an older Italian dictionary (or no Italian > dictionary at all) would be a huge regression and it would > definitely lead to users abandoning OpenOffice.org in > scores, and to community members feeling frustrated because > their work of years is removed from OpenOffice.org just for > the stubbornness of one copyright holder opposing the > license change. > > Workarounds can surely be found (like OOo offering to > download GPL dictionaries upon installation or first run) > and I'd urge to consider them before risking to alienate > entire native-lang communities. > > Regards, > Andrea. > >
