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- Copyright 2000-2011 by Kevin Atkinson
-
- Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell these word
- lists, the associated scripts, the output created from the scripts,
- and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee,
- provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and
- that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
- supporting documentation. Kevin Atkinson makes no representations
- about the suitability of this array for any purpose. It is provided
- "as is" without express or implied warranty.
-
-Alan Beale <biljir@pobox.com> also deserves special credit as he has,
-in addition to providing the 12Dicts package and being a major
-contributor to the ENABLE word list, given me an incredible amount of
-feedback and created a number of special lists (those found in the
-Supplement) in order to help improve the overall quality of SCOWL.
-
-The 10 level includes the 1000 most common English words (according to
-the Moby (TM) Words II [MWords] package), a subset of the 1000 most
-common words on the Internet (again, according to Moby Words II), and
-frequently class 16 from Brian Kelk's "UK English Wordlist
-with Frequency Classification".
-
-The MWords package was explicitly placed in the public domain:
-
- The Moby lexicon project is complete and has
- been place into the public domain. Use, sell,
- rework, excerpt and use in any way on any platform.
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-
-The "UK English Wordlist With Frequency Classification" is also in the
-Public Domain:
-
- Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 20:27:21 +0100
- From: Brian Kelk <Brian.Kelk@cl.cam.ac.uk>
-
- > I was wondering what the copyright status of your "UK English
- > Wordlist With Frequency Classification" word list as it seems to
- > be lacking any copyright notice.
-
- There were many many sources in total, but any text marked
- "copyright" was avoided. Locally-written documentation was one
- source. An earlier version of the list resided in a filespace called
- PUBLIC on the University mainframe, because it was considered public
- domain.
-
- Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:31:34 +0100
-
- > So are you saying your word list is also in the public domain?
-
- That is the intention.
-
-The 20 level includes frequency classes 7-15 from Brian's word list.
-
-The 35 level includes frequency classes 2-6 and words appearing in at
-least 11 of 12 dictionaries as indicated in the 12Dicts package. All
-words from the 12Dicts package have had likely inflections added via
-my inflection database.
-
-The 12Dicts package and Supplement is in the Public Domain.
-
-The WordNet database, which was used in the creation of the
-Inflections database, is under the following copyright:
-
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-
-The 40 level includes words from Alan's 3esl list found in version 4.0
-of his 12dicts package. Like his other stuff the 3esl list is also in the
-public domain.
-
-The 50 level includes Brian's frequency class 1, words words appearing
-in at least 5 of 12 of the dictionaries as indicated in the 12Dicts
-package, and uppercase words in at least 4 of the previous 12
-dictionaries. A decent number of proper names is also included: The
-top 1000 male, female, and Last names from the 1990 Census report; a
-list of names sent to me by Alan Beale; and a few names that I added
-myself. Finally a small list of abbreviations not commonly found in
-other word lists is included.
-
-The name files form the Census report is a government document which I
-don't think can be copyrighted.
-
-The file special-jargon.50 uses common.lst and word.lst from the
-"Unofficial Jargon File Word Lists" which is derived from "The Jargon
-File". All of which is in the Public Domain. This file also contain
-a few extra UNIX terms which are found in the file "unix-terms" in the
-special/ directory.
-
-The 55 level includes words from Alan's 2of4brif list found in version
-4.0 of his 12dicts package. Like his other stuff the 2of4brif is also
-in the public domain.
-
-The 60 level includes all words appearing in at least 2 of the 12
-dictionaries as indicated by the 12Dicts package.
-
-The 70 level includes Brian's frequency class 0 and the 74,550 common
-dictionary words from the MWords package. The common dictionary words,
-like those from the 12Dicts package, have had all likely inflections
-added. The 70 level also included the 5desk list from version 4.0 of
-the 12Dics package which is the public domain.
-
-The 80 level includes the ENABLE word list, all the lists in the
-ENABLE supplement package (except for ABLE), the "UK Advanced Cryptics
-Dictionary" (UKACD), the list of signature words in from YAWL package,
-and the 10,196 places list from the MWords package.
-
-The ENABLE package, mainted by M\Cooper <thegrendel@theriver.com>,
-is in the Public Domain:
-
- The ENABLE master word list, WORD.LST, is herewith formally released
- into the Public Domain. Anyone is free to use it or distribute it in
- any manner they see fit. No fee or registration is required for its
- use nor are "contributions" solicited (if you feel you absolutely
- must contribute something for your own peace of mind, the authors of
- the ENABLE list ask that you make a donation on their behalf to your
- favorite charity). This word list is our gift to the Scrabble
- community, as an alternate to "official" word lists. Game designers
- may feel free to incorporate the WORD.LST into their games. Please
- mention the source and credit us as originators of the list. Note
- that if you, as a game designer, use the WORD.LST in your product,
- you may still copyright and protect your product, but you may *not*
- legally copyright or in any way restrict redistribution of the
- WORD.LST portion of your product. This *may* under law restrict your
- rights to restrict your users' rights, but that is only fair.
-
-UKACD, by J Ross Beresford <ross@bryson.demon.co.uk>, is under the
-following copyright:
-
- Copyright (c) J Ross Beresford 1993-1999. All Rights Reserved.
-
- The following restriction is placed on the use of this publication:
- if The UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary is used in a software package
- or redistributed in any form, the copyright notice must be
- prominently displayed and the text of this document must be included
- verbatim.
-
- There are no other restrictions: I would like to see the list
- distributed as widely as possible.
-
-The 95 level includes the 354,984 single words, 256,772 compound
-words, 4,946 female names and the 3,897 male names, and 21,986 names
-from the MWords package, ABLE.LST from the ENABLE Supplement, and some
-additional words found in my part-of-speech database that were not
-found anywhere else.
-
-Accent information was taken from UKACD.
-
-My VARCON package was used to create the American, British, and
-Canadian word list.
-
-Since the original word lists used used in the VARCON package came
-from the Ispell distribution they are under the Ispell copyright:
-
- Copyright 1993, Geoff Kuenning, Granada Hills, CA
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