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Filed under: Asides | Tags: Automattic (16), after the deadline (2) | October 26th, 2009
After the Deadline now Open Source
After the Deadline, the intelligent spell- and grammar-checking service Automattic acquired a few months ago, is releasing its core technology under the GPL. There’s also a new jQuery API that makes it easy to integrate with any textarea. Ostatic writes about it here. ¶
Matt Mullenweg is one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s 30 under 30, and Business Week’s 25 Most Influential People on the Web. 
Viper007Bond | October 26th, 2009 @ 2:17 pm |
I know I’m a bit biased as I know Raphael, but I still must say AtD is the best spellchecker I have ever come across, online or offline.
Brad | October 26th, 2009 @ 2:42 pm |
Very nice to see ATD going open-source I’ve only used it for a day now but its very useful.
Jonathan Blackhall | October 26th, 2009 @ 3:33 pm |
Any chance we’ll be able to use it without needing an API key yet? Or how about using a WP.com API key?
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Steve | October 26th, 2009 @ 6:22 pm |
I just noticed the license is GPL, not LGPL.
@Matt please consider making it LGPL. Plenty of projects could benefit from the code but cannot link to it (or derivatives of the code) unless they are also GPL.
The GPL was never intended to cover libraries.
Raphael Mudge | October 28th, 2009 @ 4:36 am |
Hi Steve,
Never fear! The AtD server code is GPL. This is a self-contained component that doesn’t plug directly into an application. Applications talk to it.
The front-end client plugins for AtD (the TinyMCE plugin, the jQuery integration, etc.) are LGPL meaning you can link them into non-GPL projects.
– Raphael
Dave Doolin | October 28th, 2009 @ 5:42 pm |
Raphael, that’s an absolutely perfect licensing arrangement in my book. Thanks so much for cutting it exactly where it needed to be cut.
Jared Spurbeck | October 26th, 2009 @ 7:35 pm |
Whoo, congrats!
Daniel Schildt | October 28th, 2009 @ 3:28 pm |
Great thing to hear and see as you certainly want to make positive effect on how people work and communicate. Thanks for the all efforts you are using together to make web better place to make things happen.
phototristan | November 3rd, 2009 @ 6:49 pm |
What does it not use the standard Wordpress key like Askimet and Wordpress stats?
Matt | November 4th, 2009 @ 10:48 am |
Haven’t decided how they keys should work yet.
Ben Lang | November 3rd, 2009 @ 7:01 pm |
I just wanted to give you a shoutout Matt. I cant believe you are the inventor of Wordpress. Basically you are my role model, and you are amazing!!
Sincerely,
Ben
Matt | November 4th, 2009 @ 10:48 am |
Thank you.