Re: Grammar checking

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2023 08:59:50 -0400
> Cc: Nasser Alkmim <nasser.alkmim@gmail.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 
> rms@gnu.org, 
>       m.eliachevitch@posteo.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 4:49 AM Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> wrote:
> > > The one that works best for me is this Grammarly language server [1].
> > It might give better results, but it's proprietary software.
> 
> LanguageTool isn't proprietary software, but it is used for SaaSS
> where the "premium" tier appears to use rule sets that are not
> released with the base tool.  LanguageTool.org is very clear in using
> the term "open source" rather than "free" to describe the software
> (and configuration files) for its "Basic" service.

I don't understand what you are trying to say.  LanguageTool is
distributed with its sources, and the code is under LGPL 2.  The
"premium" version is not what we are considering.  So where is the
problem with that?

> Given discussions that have happened in the last few months on this
> list, I'm surprised the software maintained by the languagetool
> project would be considered suitable for introducing a dependency into
> core emacs.

We are discussing a possibility of using LanguageTool as an external
tool with which Emacs will communicate, not as a dependency for the
Emacs core.