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 COPYRIGHT, SOURCES, and CREDITS:
18 The collective work is Copyright 2000-2004 by Kevin Atkinson as well
19 as any of the copyrights mentioned below:
21 Copyright 2000-2004 by Kevin Atkinson
23 Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell these word
24 lists, the associated scripts, the output created from the scripts,
25 and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee,
26 provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and
27 that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
28 supporting documentation. Kevin Atkinson makes no representations
29 about the suitability of this array for any purpose. It is provided
30 "as is" without express or implied warranty.
32 Alan Beale <biljir@pobox.com> also deserves special credit as he has,
33 in addition to providing the 12Dicts package and being a major
34 contributor to the ENABLE word list, given me an incredible amount of
35 feedback and created a number of special lists (those found in the
36 Supplement) in order to help improve the overall quality of SCOWL.
38 The 10 level includes the 1000 most common English words (according to
39 the Moby (TM) Words II [MWords] package), a subset of the 1000 most
40 common words on the Internet (again, according to Moby Words II), and
41 frequently class 16 from Brian Kelk's "UK English Wordlist
42 with Frequency Classification".
44 The MWords package was explicitly placed in the public domain:
46 The Moby lexicon project is complete and has
47 been place into the public domain. Use, sell,
48 rework, excerpt and use in any way on any platform.
50 Placing this material on internal or public servers is
51 also encouraged. The compiler is not aware of any
52 export restrictions so freely distribute world-wide.
54 You can verify the public domain status by contacting
63 The "UK English Wordlist With Frequency Classification" is also in the
66 Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 20:27:21 +0100
67 From: Brian Kelk <Brian.Kelk@cl.cam.ac.uk>
69 > I was wondering what the copyright status of your "UK English
70 > Wordlist With Frequency Classification" word list as it seems to
71 > be lacking any copyright notice.
73 There were many many sources in total, but any text marked
74 "copyright" was avoided. Locally-written documentation was one
75 source. An earlier version of the list resided in a filespace called
76 PUBLIC on the University mainframe, because it was considered public
79 Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:31:34 +0100
81 > So are you saying your word list is also in the public domain?
83 That is the intention.
85 The 20 level includes frequency classes 7-15 from Brian's word list.
87 The 35 level includes frequency classes 2-6 and words appearing in at
88 least 11 of 12 dictionaries as indicated in the 12Dicts package. All
89 words from the 12Dicts package have had likely inflections added via
90 my inflection database.
92 The 12Dicts package and Supplement is in the Public Domain.
94 The WordNet database, which was used in the creation of the
95 Inflections database, is under the following copyright:
97 This software and database is being provided to you, the LICENSEE,
98 by Princeton University under the following license. By obtaining,
99 using and/or copying this software and database, you agree that you
100 have read, understood, and will comply with these terms and
103 Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and
104 database and its documentation for any purpose and without fee or
105 royalty is hereby granted, provided that you agree to comply with
106 the following copyright notice and statements, including the
107 disclaimer, and that the same appear on ALL copies of the software,
108 database and documentation, including modifications that you make
109 for internal use or for distribution.
111 WordNet 1.6 Copyright 1997 by Princeton University. All rights
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115 UNIVERSITY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR
116 IMPLIED. BY WAY OF EXAMPLE, BUT NOT LIMITATION, PRINCETON
117 UNIVERSITY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF MERCHANT-
118 ABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR THAT THE USE OF THE
119 LICENSED SOFTWARE, DATABASE OR DOCUMENTATION WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY
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122 The name of Princeton University or Princeton may not be used in
123 advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software
124 and/or database. Title to copyright in this software, database and
125 any associated documentation shall at all times remain with
126 Princeton University and LICENSEE agrees to preserve same.
128 The 40 level includes words from Alan's 3esl list found in version 4.0
129 of his 12dicts package. Like his other stuff the 3esl list is also in the
132 The 50 level includes Brian's frequency class 1, words words appearing
133 in at least 5 of 12 of the dictionaries as indicated in the 12Dicts
134 package, and uppercase words in at least 4 of the previous 12
135 dictionaries. A decent number of proper names is also included: The
136 top 1000 male, female, and Last names from the 1990 Census report; a
137 list of names sent to me by Alan Beale; and a few names that I added
138 myself. Finally a small list of abbreviations not commonly found in
139 other word lists is included.
141 The name files form the Census report is a government document which I
142 don't think can be copyrighted.
144 The file special-jargon.50 uses common.lst and word.lst from the
145 "Unofficial Jargon File Word Lists" which is derived from "The Jargon
146 File". All of which is in the Public Domain. This file also contain
147 a few extra UNIX terms which are found in the file "unix-terms" in the
150 The 55 level includes words from Alan's 2of4brif list found in version
151 4.0 of his 12dicts package. Like his other stuff the 2of4brif is also
152 in the public domain.
154 The 60 level includes Brian's frequency class 0 and all words
155 appearing in at least 2 of the 12 dictionaries as indicated by the
156 12Dicts package. A large number of names are also included: The 4,946
157 female names and the 3,897 male names from the MWords package.
159 The 70 level includes the 74,550 common dictionary words and the
160 21,986 names list from the MWords package The common dictionary words,
161 like those from the 12Dicts package, have had all likely inflections
162 added. The 70 level also included the 5desk list from version 4.0 of
163 the 12Dics package which is the public domain
165 The 80 level includes the ENABLE word list, all the lists in the
166 ENABLE supplement package (except for ABLE), the "UK Advanced Cryptics
167 Dictionary" (UKACD), the list of signature words in from YAWL package,
168 and the 10,196 places list from the MWords package.
170 The ENABLE package, mainted by M\Cooper <thegrendel@theriver.com>,
171 is in the Public Domain:
173 The ENABLE master word list, WORD.LST, is herewith formally released
174 into the Public Domain. Anyone is free to use it or distribute it in
175 any manner they see fit. No fee or registration is required for its
176 use nor are "contributions" solicited (if you feel you absolutely
177 must contribute something for your own peace of mind, the authors of
178 the ENABLE list ask that you make a donation on their behalf to your
179 favorite charity). This word list is our gift to the Scrabble
180 community, as an alternate to "official" word lists. Game designers
181 may feel free to incorporate the WORD.LST into their games. Please
182 mention the source and credit us as originators of the list. Note
183 that if you, as a game designer, use the WORD.LST in your product,
184 you may still copyright and protect your product, but you may *not*
185 legally copyright or in any way restrict redistribution of the
186 WORD.LST portion of your product. This *may* under law restrict your
187 rights to restrict your users' rights, but that is only fair.
189 UKACD, by J Ross Beresford <ross@bryson.demon.co.uk>, is under the
192 Copyright (c) J Ross Beresford 1993-1999. All Rights Reserved.
194 The following restriction is placed on the use of this publication:
195 if The UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary is used in a software package
196 or redistributed in any form, the copyright notice must be
197 prominently displayed and the text of this document must be included
200 There are no other restrictions: I would like to see the list
201 distributed as widely as possible.
203 The 95 level includes the 354,984 single words and 256,772 compound
204 words from the MWords package, ABLE.LST from the ENABLE Supplement,
205 and some additional words found in my part-of-speech database that
206 were not found anywhere else.
208 Accent information was taken from UKACD.
210 My VARCON package was used to create the American, British, and
213 Since the original word lists used used in the VARCON package came
214 from the Ispell distribution they are under the Ispell copyright:
216 Copyright 1993, Geoff Kuenning, Granada Hills, CA
219 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
220 modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
223 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
224 notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
225 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
226 notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
227 documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
228 3. All modifications to the source code must be clearly marked as
229 such. Binary redistributions based on modified source code
230 must be clearly marked as modified versions in the documentation
231 and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
232 (clause 4 removed with permission from Geoff Kuenning)
233 5. The name of Geoff Kuenning may not be used to endorse or promote
234 products derived from this software without specific prior
237 THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY GEOFF KUENNING AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS
238 IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
239 LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS
240 FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL GEOFF
241 KUENNING OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
242 INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING,
243 BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES;
244 LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER
245 CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
246 LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN
247 ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
248 POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
250 The variant word lists were created from a list of variants found in
251 the 12dicts supplement package as well as a list of variants I created
254 The Readmes for the various packages used can be found in the
255 appropriate directory under the r/ directory.