1 This package was debianized by David Coe <davidc@debian.org>
4 SCOWL (Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists) is a collection of
5 English word lists maintained by Kevin Atkinson
6 <kevina@users.sourceforge.net>
8 It was downloaded from:
9 http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wordlist/scowl-5.tar.gz
12 http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/
14 Copyright: (extracted from the SCOWL README file):
16 The collective work is Copyright 2000-2011 by Kevin Atkinson as well
17 as any of the copyrights mentioned below:
19 Copyright 2000-2011 by Kevin Atkinson
21 Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell these word
22 lists, the associated scripts, the output created from the scripts,
23 and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee,
24 provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and
25 that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
26 supporting documentation. Kevin Atkinson makes no representations
27 about the suitability of this array for any purpose. It is provided
28 "as is" without express or implied warranty.
30 Alan Beale <biljir@pobox.com> also deserves special credit as he has,
31 in addition to providing the 12Dicts package and being a major
32 contributor to the ENABLE word list, given me an incredible amount of
33 feedback and created a number of special lists (those found in the
34 Supplement) in order to help improve the overall quality of SCOWL.
36 The 10 level includes the 1000 most common English words (according to
37 the Moby (TM) Words II [MWords] package), a subset of the 1000 most
38 common words on the Internet (again, according to Moby Words II), and
39 frequently class 16 from Brian Kelk's "UK English Wordlist
40 with Frequency Classification".
42 The MWords package was explicitly placed in the public domain:
44 The Moby lexicon project is complete and has
45 been place into the public domain. Use, sell,
46 rework, excerpt and use in any way on any platform.
48 Placing this material on internal or public servers is
49 also encouraged. The compiler is not aware of any
50 export restrictions so freely distribute world-wide.
52 You can verify the public domain status by contacting
61 The "UK English Wordlist With Frequency Classification" is also in the
64 Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 20:27:21 +0100
65 From: Brian Kelk <Brian.Kelk@cl.cam.ac.uk>
67 > I was wondering what the copyright status of your "UK English
68 > Wordlist With Frequency Classification" word list as it seems to
69 > be lacking any copyright notice.
71 There were many many sources in total, but any text marked
72 "copyright" was avoided. Locally-written documentation was one
73 source. An earlier version of the list resided in a filespace called
74 PUBLIC on the University mainframe, because it was considered public
77 Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:31:34 +0100
79 > So are you saying your word list is also in the public domain?
81 That is the intention.
83 The 20 level includes frequency classes 7-15 from Brian's word list.
85 The 35 level includes frequency classes 2-6 and words appearing in at
86 least 11 of 12 dictionaries as indicated in the 12Dicts package. All
87 words from the 12Dicts package have had likely inflections added via
88 my inflection database.
90 The 12Dicts package and Supplement is in the Public Domain.
92 The WordNet database, which was used in the creation of the
93 Inflections database, is under the following copyright:
95 This software and database is being provided to you, the LICENSEE,
96 by Princeton University under the following license. By obtaining,
97 using and/or copying this software and database, you agree that you
98 have read, understood, and will comply with these terms and
101 Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and
102 database and its documentation for any purpose and without fee or
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104 the following copyright notice and statements, including the
105 disclaimer, and that the same appear on ALL copies of the software,
106 database and documentation, including modifications that you make
107 for internal use or for distribution.
109 WordNet 1.6 Copyright 1997 by Princeton University. All rights
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114 IMPLIED. BY WAY OF EXAMPLE, BUT NOT LIMITATION, PRINCETON
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116 ABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR THAT THE USE OF THE
117 LICENSED SOFTWARE, DATABASE OR DOCUMENTATION WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY
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120 The name of Princeton University or Princeton may not be used in
121 advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software
122 and/or database. Title to copyright in this software, database and
123 any associated documentation shall at all times remain with
124 Princeton University and LICENSEE agrees to preserve same.
126 The 40 level includes words from Alan's 3esl list found in version 4.0
127 of his 12dicts package. Like his other stuff the 3esl list is also in the
130 The 50 level includes Brian's frequency class 1, words words appearing
131 in at least 5 of 12 of the dictionaries as indicated in the 12Dicts
132 package, and uppercase words in at least 4 of the previous 12
133 dictionaries. A decent number of proper names is also included: The
134 top 1000 male, female, and Last names from the 1990 Census report; a
135 list of names sent to me by Alan Beale; and a few names that I added
136 myself. Finally a small list of abbreviations not commonly found in
137 other word lists is included.
139 The name files form the Census report is a government document which I
140 don't think can be copyrighted.
142 The file special-jargon.50 uses common.lst and word.lst from the
143 "Unofficial Jargon File Word Lists" which is derived from "The Jargon
144 File". All of which is in the Public Domain. This file also contain
145 a few extra UNIX terms which are found in the file "unix-terms" in the
148 The 55 level includes words from Alan's 2of4brif list found in version
149 4.0 of his 12dicts package. Like his other stuff the 2of4brif is also
150 in the public domain.
152 The 60 level includes all words appearing in at least 2 of the 12
153 dictionaries as indicated by the 12Dicts package.
155 The 70 level includes Brian's frequency class 0 and the 74,550 common
156 dictionary words from the MWords package. The common dictionary words,
157 like those from the 12Dicts package, have had all likely inflections
158 added. The 70 level also included the 5desk list from version 4.0 of
159 the 12Dics package which is the public domain.
161 The 80 level includes the ENABLE word list, all the lists in the
162 ENABLE supplement package (except for ABLE), the "UK Advanced Cryptics
163 Dictionary" (UKACD), the list of signature words in from YAWL package,
164 and the 10,196 places list from the MWords package.
166 The ENABLE package, mainted by M\Cooper <thegrendel@theriver.com>,
167 is in the Public Domain:
169 The ENABLE master word list, WORD.LST, is herewith formally released
170 into the Public Domain. Anyone is free to use it or distribute it in
171 any manner they see fit. No fee or registration is required for its
172 use nor are "contributions" solicited (if you feel you absolutely
173 must contribute something for your own peace of mind, the authors of
174 the ENABLE list ask that you make a donation on their behalf to your
175 favorite charity). This word list is our gift to the Scrabble
176 community, as an alternate to "official" word lists. Game designers
177 may feel free to incorporate the WORD.LST into their games. Please
178 mention the source and credit us as originators of the list. Note
179 that if you, as a game designer, use the WORD.LST in your product,
180 you may still copyright and protect your product, but you may *not*
181 legally copyright or in any way restrict redistribution of the
182 WORD.LST portion of your product. This *may* under law restrict your
183 rights to restrict your users' rights, but that is only fair.
185 UKACD, by J Ross Beresford <ross@bryson.demon.co.uk>, is under the
188 Copyright (c) J Ross Beresford 1993-1999. All Rights Reserved.
190 The following restriction is placed on the use of this publication:
191 if The UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary is used in a software package
192 or redistributed in any form, the copyright notice must be
193 prominently displayed and the text of this document must be included
196 There are no other restrictions: I would like to see the list
197 distributed as widely as possible.
199 The 95 level includes the 354,984 single words, 256,772 compound
200 words, 4,946 female names and the 3,897 male names, and 21,986 names
201 from the MWords package, ABLE.LST from the ENABLE Supplement, and some
202 additional words found in my part-of-speech database that were not
205 Accent information was taken from UKACD.
207 My VARCON package was used to create the American, British, and
210 Since the original word lists used used in the VARCON package came
211 from the Ispell distribution they are under the Ispell copyright:
213 Copyright 1993, Geoff Kuenning, Granada Hills, CA
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229 (clause 4 removed with permission from Geoff Kuenning)
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