1 The collective work is Copyright 2000-2011 by Kevin Atkinson as well
2 as any of the copyrights mentioned below:
4 Copyright 2000-2011 by Kevin Atkinson
6 Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell these word
7 lists, the associated scripts, the output created from the scripts,
8 and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee,
9 provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and
10 that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
11 supporting documentation. Kevin Atkinson makes no representations
12 about the suitability of this array for any purpose. It is provided
13 "as is" without express or implied warranty.
15 Alan Beale <biljir@pobox.com> also deserves special credit as he has,
16 in addition to providing the 12Dicts package and being a major
17 contributor to the ENABLE word list, given me an incredible amount of
18 feedback and created a number of special lists (those found in the
19 Supplement) in order to help improve the overall quality of SCOWL.
21 The 10 level includes the 1000 most common English words (according to
22 the Moby (TM) Words II [MWords] package), a subset of the 1000 most
23 common words on the Internet (again, according to Moby Words II), and
24 frequently class 16 from Brian Kelk's "UK English Wordlist
25 with Frequency Classification".
27 The MWords package was explicitly placed in the public domain:
29 The Moby lexicon project is complete and has
30 been place into the public domain. Use, sell,
31 rework, excerpt and use in any way on any platform.
33 Placing this material on internal or public servers is
34 also encouraged. The compiler is not aware of any
35 export restrictions so freely distribute world-wide.
37 You can verify the public domain status by contacting
46 The "UK English Wordlist With Frequency Classification" is also in the
49 Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 20:27:21 +0100
50 From: Brian Kelk <Brian.Kelk@cl.cam.ac.uk>
52 > I was wondering what the copyright status of your "UK English
53 > Wordlist With Frequency Classification" word list as it seems to
54 > be lacking any copyright notice.
56 There were many many sources in total, but any text marked
57 "copyright" was avoided. Locally-written documentation was one
58 source. An earlier version of the list resided in a filespace called
59 PUBLIC on the University mainframe, because it was considered public
62 Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:31:34 +0100
64 > So are you saying your word list is also in the public domain?
66 That is the intention.
68 The 20 level includes frequency classes 7-15 from Brian's word list.
70 The 35 level includes frequency classes 2-6 and words appearing in at
71 least 11 of 12 dictionaries as indicated in the 12Dicts package. All
72 words from the 12Dicts package have had likely inflections added via
73 my inflection database.
75 The 12Dicts package and Supplement is in the Public Domain.
77 The WordNet database, which was used in the creation of the
78 Inflections database, is under the following copyright:
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111 The 40 level includes words from Alan's 3esl list found in version 4.0
112 of his 12dicts package. Like his other stuff the 3esl list is also in the
115 The 50 level includes Brian's frequency class 1, words words appearing
116 in at least 5 of 12 of the dictionaries as indicated in the 12Dicts
117 package, and uppercase words in at least 4 of the previous 12
118 dictionaries. A decent number of proper names is also included: The
119 top 1000 male, female, and Last names from the 1990 Census report; a
120 list of names sent to me by Alan Beale; and a few names that I added
121 myself. Finally a small list of abbreviations not commonly found in
122 other word lists is included.
124 The name files form the Census report is a government document which I
125 don't think can be copyrighted.
127 The file special-jargon.50 uses common.lst and word.lst from the
128 "Unofficial Jargon File Word Lists" which is derived from "The Jargon
129 File". All of which is in the Public Domain. This file also contain
130 a few extra UNIX terms which are found in the file "unix-terms" in the
133 The 55 level includes words from Alan's 2of4brif list found in version
134 4.0 of his 12dicts package. Like his other stuff the 2of4brif is also
135 in the public domain.
137 The 60 level includes all words appearing in at least 2 of the 12
138 dictionaries as indicated by the 12Dicts package.
140 The 70 level includes Brian's frequency class 0 and the 74,550 common
141 dictionary words from the MWords package. The common dictionary words,
142 like those from the 12Dicts package, have had all likely inflections
143 added. The 70 level also included the 5desk list from version 4.0 of
144 the 12Dics package which is the public domain.
146 The 80 level includes the ENABLE word list, all the lists in the
147 ENABLE supplement package (except for ABLE), the "UK Advanced Cryptics
148 Dictionary" (UKACD), the list of signature words in from YAWL package,
149 and the 10,196 places list from the MWords package.
151 The ENABLE package, mainted by M\Cooper <thegrendel@theriver.com>,
152 is in the Public Domain:
154 The ENABLE master word list, WORD.LST, is herewith formally released
155 into the Public Domain. Anyone is free to use it or distribute it in
156 any manner they see fit. No fee or registration is required for its
157 use nor are "contributions" solicited (if you feel you absolutely
158 must contribute something for your own peace of mind, the authors of
159 the ENABLE list ask that you make a donation on their behalf to your
160 favorite charity). This word list is our gift to the Scrabble
161 community, as an alternate to "official" word lists. Game designers
162 may feel free to incorporate the WORD.LST into their games. Please
163 mention the source and credit us as originators of the list. Note
164 that if you, as a game designer, use the WORD.LST in your product,
165 you may still copyright and protect your product, but you may *not*
166 legally copyright or in any way restrict redistribution of the
167 WORD.LST portion of your product. This *may* under law restrict your
168 rights to restrict your users' rights, but that is only fair.
170 UKACD, by J Ross Beresford <ross@bryson.demon.co.uk>, is under the
173 Copyright (c) J Ross Beresford 1993-1999. All Rights Reserved.
175 The following restriction is placed on the use of this publication:
176 if The UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary is used in a software package
177 or redistributed in any form, the copyright notice must be
178 prominently displayed and the text of this document must be included
181 There are no other restrictions: I would like to see the list
182 distributed as widely as possible.
184 The 95 level includes the 354,984 single words, 256,772 compound
185 words, 4,946 female names and the 3,897 male names, and 21,986 names
186 from the MWords package, ABLE.LST from the ENABLE Supplement, and some
187 additional words found in my part-of-speech database that were not
190 Accent information was taken from UKACD.
192 My VARCON package was used to create the American, British, and
195 Since the original word lists used used in the VARCON package came
196 from the Ispell distribution they are under the Ispell copyright:
198 Copyright 1993, Geoff Kuenning, Granada Hills, CA
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