Announce: Hspell 1.2

[Oleg Goldshmidt]

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il>wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 03, 2012, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote about "Re: Announce:
> Hspell 1.2":
> > Regarding the license - AGPL sounds like a great idea, but It is hard for
> > me to imagine
> > gmail, for example, with a "powered by Hspell" button. I am afraid they
> > will prefer to keep
> > using the outdated version 1.1 rather than do this.
>
> I believe that Google is actually still using Hspell 0.9, not even
> 1.1...
>
> If you look very carefully in Google Docs (I can't even recall how I
> found it), you may find a link to this page:
>        http://www.google.com/google-d-s/legal.html
> Would it have killed them to also mention Hspell - and not just free
> software whose license demanded attribution?
> (if you're wondering whether Google *really* uses Hspell, they do admit
> it in one place: http://code.google.com/opensource/patches.html).
>
> Moreover, I definitely don't expect a "powered by Hspell" button on the
> Google home page ;-) But what is so strange in expecting a link to
> Hspell while the Hebrew spellchecker is running, or in the spellchecking
> help page in Hebrew?


>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?).

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.

-- 
Oleg Goldshmidt | pub at goldshmidt.org <oleg at goldshmidt.org>
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