Post by @aharoni@wikis.world

LanguageTool was a fantastic rule-based LGPL-licensed advanced spelling and grammar checker that worked in many languages.

It was much better than its competitor Grammarly in every imaginable way.

Then its developers changed it into "AI", and it started occasionally making languages mistakes.

And today they said that it will be available only for paying customers.

Who here knows Java well enough to fork it? It's still LGPL as far as I can see.

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@aharoni tell me more. where is the still-working source code.

And I guess the fork should be called LGPL Language Model

@egonw probably at https://languagetool.org/dev . Thanks for the interest!

I know Java a bit, and about nine years ago, I tried to take a look at it myself, but somehow never dove deeply into it. Maybe I should try again.