GPL/LGPL/MPL non-code content license

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Published on 2013-04-27T15:46:17Z Indexed on 2013/06/26 22:29 UTC
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I want to use a dictionary (basically a text file, and no code) that is included with an open office spell checking plug-in. The plug-in is under the tri-license GPL/LGPL/MPL which I don't understand. is that legal?

If it is illegal, what if I wrote a script that uses the said open office plug-in to generate the dictionary (assuming it's technically possible, the script will generate all possible letter permutations, passes it to the plug-in and saves the correct ones) ?

I will be using the dictionary in a closed source commercial application.

The dictionary is in a language that has very little resources online, and short of making my own dictionary, there aren't any alternatives.

Clarification: The script idea I mentioned above, isn't a weird technique, I would generate a document with all possible words and use open office with the plug-in installed to show spelling mistakes and remove them, isn't this the intended use of the plug-in (spell checking)?

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