Re: No Grammar checker

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Francis James Franklin wrote:

> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 22:39:29 +0000
> From: Francis James Franklin <postmaster@alinameridon.plus.com>
> To: Gail Millard <greybark@ev1.net>
> Cc: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: No Grammar checker
>
>
> Hi,
>
> We talked about making a link-grammar plugin 2-3 years ago, as I
> remember, but there were some licensing issues that got in the way. To
> my knowledge no one has written a grammar plugin for AbiWord; it's
> something we would like a lot.

At the time they were considering changing their licensing terms and have
since done so.

http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/

The Link Grammar License
http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/license.html

"The important parts are 1, 2, and 3, which roughly state that this
license must be included in any new distributions, and if you use the
system for creating an on-line service, you must include a link to our web
site."

I am not a lawyer, read the license for yourself but I think it is fairly
generous and reasonable and should no longer be an issue.

I'd still be interested to see plugins that use the GNU style and diction
utilities which are grammar tools in the general sense if not necessarily
what the average Microsoft Word user might expect.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

http://www.googlism.com/what_is/a/abiword/
Abiword is Awesome http://abisource.com

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Received on Fri Nov 26 00:32:21 2004