Base Telugu words though old were already available under GPL, thanks to the efforts of IIIT, Hyderabad which digitized CPBrown English-Telugu dictionary. I just used it for Telugu spell checker. I did not package it as a dictionary, as the purpose is served by spell checker add on.
--------------------- Sent via mobile On Mar 18, 2012 5:10 AM, "Amir E. Aharoni" amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
2012/3/18 Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunaraoc@gmail.com:
Telugu spell checker (Self plug:contributed by me )is at
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/telugu-spell-checker/
Arjuna, this is very good! I wonder why doesn't it appear in the full list of spelling dictionaries. I filed a bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736786
Spell checkers for indic languages have only limited success, due to the complex nature of Indic languages. Advanced algorithms developed in Universities are yet to reach the common users.
If the software is free, it can be distributed through Mozilla, OpenOffice and Google services like GMail and Google Docs.
In the particular case of Mozilla, the spelling dictionary can be included in the version of Firefox that people download, but only if it's licensed as GPL, LGPL and MPL. This requirement is strange to me, but Mozilla are very firm about it. Since you are the author of this particular dictionary, you can decide to license it this way, and then it will be installed to all users by default.
The other way to distribute it is just to advertise it any way you can
- blogs, comments, Facebook, anything. Spelling checkers should be
advertised more :)
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
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