extensions/spellcheck/hunspell/src/README.hunspell@6474c204b198 (annotated)
extensions/spellcheck/hunspell/src/README.hunspell
Wed, 31 Dec 2014 06:09:35 +0100
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- Michael Schloh von Bennewitz <michael@schloh.com>
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- Wed, 31 Dec 2014 06:09:35 +0100
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| michael@0 | 1 | ******* BEGIN LICENSE BLOCK ******* |
| michael@0 | 2 | * Version: MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1 |
| michael@0 | 3 | * |
| michael@0 | 4 | * The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License Version |
| michael@0 | 5 | * 1.1 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with |
| michael@0 | 6 | * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at |
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| michael@0 | 8 | * |
| michael@0 | 9 | * Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, |
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| michael@0 | 11 | * for the specific language governing rights and limitations under the |
| michael@0 | 12 | * License. |
| michael@0 | 13 | * |
| michael@0 | 14 | * The Initial Developers of the Original Code are Kevin Hendricks (MySpell) |
| michael@0 | 15 | * and László Németh (Hunspell). Portions created by the Initial Developers |
| michael@0 | 16 | * are Copyright (C) 2002-2005 the Initial Developers. All Rights Reserved. |
| michael@0 | 17 | * |
| michael@0 | 18 | * Contributor(s): Kevin Hendricks (kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca) |
| michael@0 | 19 | * David Einstein (deinst@world.std.com) |
| michael@0 | 20 | * László Németh (nemethl@gyorsposta.hu) |
| michael@0 | 21 | * Ryan VanderMeulen (ryanvm@gmail.com) |
| michael@0 | 22 | * Caolan McNamara (caolanm@redhat.com) |
| michael@0 | 23 | * |
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| michael@0 | 36 | ******* END LICENSE BLOCK ******* |
| michael@0 | 37 | |
| michael@0 | 38 | Hunspell Version: 1.3.2 |
| michael@0 | 39 | Additional Patches: 694002, 710967, 710940, 784776 |
| michael@0 | 40 | |
| michael@0 | 41 | Hunspell Author: László Németh |
| michael@0 | 42 | MySpell Author: Kevin Hendricks & David Einstein |
| michael@0 | 43 | |
| michael@0 | 44 | Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyser library. Hunspell |
| michael@0 | 45 | is based on OpenOffice.org's Myspell. Documentation, tests, and examples |
| michael@0 | 46 | are available at http://hunspell.sourceforge.net. |
| michael@0 | 47 | |
| michael@0 | 48 | A special thanks and credit goes to Geoff Kuenning, the creator of Ispell. |
| michael@0 | 49 | MySpell's affix algorithms were based on those of Ispell, which should be |
| michael@0 | 50 | noted is copyright Geoff Kuenning et al and now available under a BSD-style |
| michael@0 | 51 | license. For more information on Ispell and affix compression in general, |
| michael@0 | 52 | please see: http://lasr.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html (Ispell homepage) |
| michael@0 | 53 | |
| michael@0 | 54 | An almost complete rewrite of MySpell for use by the Mozilla project was |
| michael@0 | 55 | developed by David Einstein. David was a significant help in improving MySpell. |
| michael@0 | 56 | |
| michael@0 | 57 | Special thanks also goes to László Németh, who is the author of the Hungarian |
| michael@0 | 58 | dictionary and who developed and contributed the code to support compound words |
| michael@0 | 59 | in MySpell and fixed numerous problems with the encoding case conversion tables |
| michael@0 | 60 | along with rewriting MySpell as Hunspell and ensuring compatibility with the |
| michael@0 | 61 | Mozilla codebase. |
