Re: Grammar checking

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > > If the released (and free) LanguageTool _program_ gives adequate
  > > results, we could make Emacs support working with that.  But we should
  > > take pains _not_ to support the kind of communication that that SaaSS
  > > server offers.
  > They may not make it easy, see this complaint on their forum:

Would you please spell out what it is
that they "may not make easy"? 

  > https://forum.languagetool.org/t/about-the-premium-version-of-languagetool/8469

I looked at that page, but lacking the context, I can't understand it
well enough to divine the point that your message hints at.

  > * The process for contributing "rules" to the free version is to go
  > through the SaaSS's forum sites.
  > https://community.languagetool.org/rule/list?lang=en shows 5919 rules
  > for english, presumably in the basic version.

We could consider forking that code in a limited way: adding new rules.

In general, we should cooperate with upstream developers, but we don't
have to jump through hoops to do so.

  >    Looking at the java code makes it appear there are
  > many hard-coded rules, but I don't know if that is really the case.
  > That is whether the code for the rules are some generic implementation
  > of the rules coded in XML, or if the XML rule sets are being
  > translated into java code at some point in the build process.

I can only guess at the context this is about, but it sounds like
you're suggesting that it may not be clear what form of the code is
the real source code.  Do they not say?  Does their source release
include the XML?  Does it include Make rules to translate the XML into
Java?

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