Announce: Hspell 1.2

[Jonathan Ben Avraham]

Hi Nadav,
It's a question of how you look at the world - the way it should be or the 
way it is. The way it is (or was), there was no way either LibreOffice or 
OpenOffice would ever be GPL and so Hspell did not get in. You can claim a 
moral victory but the user community is poorer as a result.

  - yba


On Sat, 3 Mar 2012, Nadav Har'El wrote:

> Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 22:56:20 +0200
> From: Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il>
> To: Jonathan Ben Avraham <yba at tkos.co.il>
> Cc: Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda <ladypine at gmail.com>, linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il
> Subject: Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2
> 
> On Sat, Mar 03, 2012, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote about "Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2":
>> Nadav and Dan under the GPL license. If the licence had been at
>> least LGPL the code would have found its way into OpenOffice, which
>> would have given OpenOffice an advantage in the Hebrew market and
>> might have resulted in more user-contributed code.
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm curious why you think the end-result (and I'm not talking about the
> situation seven years ago) isn't better than we could have had with an LGPL
> Hspell.
>
> If Hspell were LGPL, it would have been tightly integrated inside OpenOffice,
> and commercial products from IBM, Sun and perhaps others that build on it
> would have had Hebrew spell-checking out of the box. But its users might not
> know where this Hebrew spell-checking came from, what its spelling standard
> is. And they would likely get old versions of the spell-checker.
>
> Instead, what is happening now, is that Hebrew spell-checking is a
> plug-in (or in Linux, a separate package, e.g., hunspell-he in Fedora).
> Any user can get it, easily and freely, and while doing this he or she will
> always have the latest version, and be aware of exactly which spell-checker
> they are using, its spelling standard, and who to complain to in case of
> problems.
>
> Frankly, I never understood why OpenOffice not just GPL. Why the
> insistance to allow Sun and IBM to create proprietary versions of it?
>
> Nadav.
>
>

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