On 10/13/2020 11:00 AM, Dan Lewis wrote: > > On 10/13/20 08:31, Brian Barker wrote: >> At 08:10 13/10/2020 -0400, Dan Lewis wrote: >>> On 10/12/20 21:33, Paul R. Morin wrote: >>>> When do you plan to or do you plan to have the spell checker work on >>>> Open Office 4.[1.7]? Open Office is a great app but the spell >>>> checker doesn't work. >>> >>> A similar question occurs to me. When will this problem be corrected? >> >> Er, what problem, please? Spelling checking works for me and for >> millions of others. Why not for you? >> >> Brian Barker > > For more than 10 years, the configure folder has become corrupted by > some action. This prevents the spell checker from working any more. > Deleting the this folder and then running OOo corrects this as you > already know. LibreOffice has learned how to avoid this. Since these two > office programs are very similar, I would think that the solution would > be to apply the same solution. > > I also know that this affect very few people, but it is a consistent > problem that appears in this mailing list. > > > Dan Dan;
Just because LO fixed it does not mean that AOO can apply that patch. In general LO is duel licensed under Mozilla Public License v2 and the GNU Lesser GPL v3+ licenses which are incompatible with the Apache License version 2.0 (ALV2) and cannot be used unless the developer also licensees it under the ALV2[1]. [1] https://apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-x
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