aspell: Authors
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1 Appendix G Authors
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1 The following people or companies have contributed a non-trival amount
1 of code to Aspell and thus own the Copyright to part of Aspell.
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1 Jose Da Silva
1 Bug fixes and enhancements to `word-list-compress'.
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1 Sergey Poznyakoff
1 Wrote the Nroff filter.
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1 Tom Snyder
1 Enhanced the SGML filter to also support skipping sgml tags such as
1 "script" blocks.
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1 Kevin B. Hendricks (and Contributers)
1 Wrote MySpell which is a simple spell checker library that supports
1 affix compression. Aspell affix compression code is based on his
1 code.
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1 Christoph Hintermüller
1 Added support for loadable filters.
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1 Melvin Hadasht
1 Wrote a locale independent version of strtol and strtod. Wrote
1 the original loadable filter support however his code has been
1 completely rewritten by Christoph Hintermüller and Kevin Atkinson.
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1 Björn Jacke
1 Wrote the generic soundslike algorithm which gets all of its data
1 from a file, thus eliminating almost all need for language
1 specific code from Aspell.
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1 Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Inc.
1 Hewlett-Packard Company
1 Parts of the SGI STL code were used in various places throughout
1 the Aspell source.
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1 In addition the authors of some of translated messages did not
1 release their work into the Public Domain, and thus own the copyright
1 to the translated text. See the files `*.po' in the `po' directory for
1 more details.
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1 The folowing people also contributed to the development of Aspell
1 but do not own the Copyright to part of Aspell.
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1 Sergey Poznyakoff
1 Added gettext support.
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1 Chris Martin
1 Converted the manual to texinfo.
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1 Lawrence Philips
1 Wrote the original metaphone algorithm; however, he released his
1 work into the Public Domain.
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1 Michael Kuhn
1 Converted the metaphone algorithm into C code and made some
1 enhancements to the original algorithm. He also released his work
1 into the Public Domain.
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1 Geoff Kuenning (and contributers)
1 The authors of Ispell. Many of the ideas used in Aspell,
1 especially with the affix code, were taken from Ispell. However
1 none of the original Ispell code is used in Aspell.
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