<div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia,serif"><br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Nadav Har'El <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nyh@math.technion.ac.il">nyh@math.technion.ac.il</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Sat, Mar 03, 2012, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote about "Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2":<br>
<div class="im">> Regarding the license - AGPL sounds like a great idea, but It is hard for<br>
> me to imagine<br>
> gmail, for example, with a "powered by Hspell" button. I am afraid they<br>
> will prefer to keep<br>
> using the outdated version 1.1 rather than do this.<br>
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</div>I believe that Google is actually still using Hspell 0.9, not even<br>
1.1...<br>
<br>
If you look very carefully in Google Docs (I can't even recall how I<br>
found it), you may find a link to this page:<br>
<a href="http://www.google.com/google-d-s/legal.html" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/google-d-s/legal.html</a><br>
Would it have killed them to also mention Hspell - and not just free<br>
software whose license demanded attribution?<br>
(if you're wondering whether Google *really* uses Hspell, they do admit<br>
it in one place: <a href="http://code.google.com/opensource/patches.html" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/opensource/patches.html</a>).<br>
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Moreover, I definitely don't expect a "powered by Hspell" button on the<br>
Google home page ;-) But what is so strange in expecting a link to<br>
Hspell while the Hebrew spellchecker is running, or in the spellchecking<br>
help page in Hebrew?</blockquote><div><br>From the last link it is not clear to me that Google actually use Hspell as software. They say they use "data from Hspell to implement Hebrew spell-checking". This may be construed as using their own - or 3rd party - spell-checker while utilizing your "data", whatever that means (word list?).<br>
<br>I don't know, of course, and I am not familiar with Hspell's structure to even decide for myself whether it can be divided into "data" and "software". I would tend to believe that Google carefully weigh such formulae, even if they are not really afraid of your thousand-dollars-an-hour lawyer. <br>
<br>-- <br></div></div>Oleg Goldshmidt | <a href="mailto:oleg@goldshmidt.org" target="_blank">pub@goldshmidt.org</a><br>
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