Comment on GitHub - gardner/LocalLanguageTool: Self-hosted LanguageTool private instance is an offline alternative to Grammarly

Mora@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• mac@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah I’m confused, isnt language tool also already open source? Nothing on the above repo explains the difference. Official language tool server can be found below

  github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool

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  • koala@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Running LanguageTool locally is a bit of a pain, with some manual steps. Plus you have to fetch some data files. You can find around a few projects like this one to make it easier to run LanguageTool.

    And yes, as the poster mentioned, LanguageTool keeps some code exclusive to their paid version. There’s a bit of a tension because they ask people not to extend OSS LanguageTool with their paid features.

    There’s also this interesting clone, but it seems abandoned.

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