From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Grammar checking in Emacs Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 23:13:50 -0500 Message-ID: References: <297e7f60-e97d-f162-d57-13335b65f4c4@froglet.home.mavit.org.uk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7629"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: mardani29@yahoo.es, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Peter Oliver Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 17 05:15:08 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mnCLk-0001oO-4Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2021 05:15:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38164 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mnCLi-0004IL-TK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 23:15:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:57214) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mnCKV-0003FR-BF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 23:13:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=46830 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mnCKU-0001UV-I5; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 23:13:50 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=Xo7pRRf4a2dSTtYRcYNPUPFowF85UKHzUnyW9rpGVpc=; b=B3cDi6V+CSZx OrcDyfgAH7iCmlV5RsHRvSw7ZOrI4qfnhwLnoQxpBWn2zC7eoSZl8u25hQa2HJVwM2lon5pyEWaUH A4IsT1wp/K1MORnIQLChf4VEfFg/IpAyNln7xn1yjiCJSKyF0Qruds2ZN2nPNWORKbJu3X2lA+1iI YKTdvM6pyZ+AgmeluHWEHFqld/EFEmFKPcmysNP3F+e8FbIDp64V+ni6Z/2Jpb2t27ye/tJ4t2BMM N0WDgCFBJT0Ka6oV++FPtpYwZXKOVUlvPbWZ0F3ZbD8SkrTqyzumVZHX45jtKMO8EY46WpqAhRMPp SzrrC7h3hJUwUum/VfBtbA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mnCKU-0004uo-G3; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 23:13:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: <297e7f60-e97d-f162-d57-13335b65f4c4@froglet.home.mavit.org.uk> (message from Peter Oliver on Mon, 15 Nov 2021 22:43:56 +0000 (GMT)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:279595 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > AFAICT the most popular way to install it is as a "snap" package, which > > I consider to be a euphemism for a blob :-( > You can unzip prebuilt JARs from https://languagetool.org/download/LanguageTool-stable.zip, which seems simpler but similarly blobby. In principle, those JARs could make it easier to see the full list of contents and determine what nonfree files there are, if any. But it looks like you don't think so. Would you please expand on why you don't think so? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)