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- This package was debianized by Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com> on
- Sat, 19 Oct 2002 01:23:43 -0700.
-
- It was downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell
-
- The upstream author is Kevin Atkinson <kevina@gnu.org>.
-
- Copyright:
-
- This English word list is comes directly from SCOWL (up to level 65)
- (http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/) and is thus under the same
- copyright of SCOWL.
-
- The SCOWL copyright follows:
-
- The collective work is Copyright 2000-2003 by Kevin Atkinson as well
- as any of the copyrights mentioned below:
-
- Copyright 2000-2003 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.
-
- Placing this material on internal or public servers is
- also encouraged. The compiler is not aware of any
- export restrictions so freely distribute world-wide.
-
- You can verify the public domain status by contacting
-
- Grady Ward
- 3449 Martha Ct.
- Arcata, CA 95521-4884
-
- grady@netcom.com
- grady@northcoast.com
-
- 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:
-
- This software and database is being provided to you, the LICENSEE,
- by Princeton University under the following license. By obtaining,
- using and/or copying this software and database, you agree that you
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-
- Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and
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- disclaimer, and that the same appear on ALL copies of the software,
- database and documentation, including modifications that you make
- for internal use or for distribution.
-
- WordNet 1.6 Copyright 1997 by Princeton University. All rights
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-
- 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 60 level includes Brian's frequency class 0 and all words
- appearing in at least 2 of the 12 dictionaries as indicated by the
- 12Dicts package. A large number of names are also included: The 4,946
- female names and the 3,897 male names from the MWords package.
-
- The 65 level includes words found in the Ispell "medium" word list.
- The Ispell word lists are under the same copyright of Ispell itself
- which is:
-
- Copyright 1993, Geoff Kuenning, Granada Hills, CA
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