[libvoikko] grammar checker checks

[Francis Tyers]

El dv 27 de 09 de 2013 a les 16:47 +0200, en/na Tino Didriksen va
escriure:
> On 19 September 2013 10:33, Francis Tyers <ftyers at prompsit.com> wrote:
>         El dc 18 de 09 de 2013 a les 18:06 +0300, en/na Harri Pitkänen
>         va
>         escriure:
>         > On Wednesday 18 September 2013 11:06:57 Francis Tyers wrote:
>         > > 3) In the long term, might it be possible to replace the C
>         ++ checks with
>         > > a constraint grammar file ?
>         >
>         > I really would like to do that at least for those checks
>         that could be
>         > implemented with a constraint grammar. But in the near
>         future that does not
>         > seem to be possible. Here the license of vislcg3 is a
>         problem. Currently the
>         > Finnish grammar checker under its MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license
>         could (in theory)
>         > be integrated into LibreOffice core but vislcg3 can only be
>         used in an
>         > extension.
>         
>         The authors of VISLCG3 would probably be quite happy to
>         consider
>         trilicensing it. I put Tino Didriksen in copy, who is the main
>         developer.
> 
> 
> Eckhard Bick and I have discussed this at length today, and the
> conclusion is against changing the current CG-3 dual-licensing model
> (Commercial + GPLv3) at this time. Eckhard does not want to eclipse
> the commercial avenue by making CG-3 LGPL and/or MPL.
> 
> 
> If it was possible to grant LibreOffice an exclusive non-transferable
> license to use CG-3, Eckhard would be ok with that, but LibreOffice
> rejects that idea (I asked #libreoffice-dev). LO strongly requires all
> code going into LO Core to be at least dual-licensed LGPLv3 and MPL.

No problem, in any case, we will have that avenue open if the fomacg
stuff continues being developed. In fact, it would give more impetus. :)

Fran