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| 2 20040623 release. | |
| 3 -- | |
| 4 This dictionary is based on a subset of the original | |
| 5 English wordlist created by Kevin Atkinson for Pspell | |
| 6 and Aspell and thus is covered by his original | |
| 7 LGPL license. The affix file is a heavily modified | |
| 8 version of the original english.aff file which was | |
| 9 released as part of Geoff Kuenning's Ispell and as | |
| 10 such is covered by his BSD license. | |
| 11 | |
| 12 Thanks to both authors for there wonderful work. | |
| 13 | |
| 14 | |
| 15 =================================================== | |
| 16 en_AU: | |
| 17 This dictionary was based on the en_GB Myspell dictionary | |
| 18 which in turn was initially based on a subset of the | |
| 19 original English wordlist created by Kevin Atkinson for | |
| 20 Pspell and Aspell and thus is covered by his original | |
| 21 LGPL licence. | |
| 22 | |
| 23 The credit for this en_AU dictionary goes to: | |
| 24 | |
| 25 Kelvin Eldridge (maintainer) | |
| 26 Jean Hollis Weber | |
| 27 David Wilson | |
| 28 | |
| 29 - Words incorrect in Australian English removed | |
| 30 - a list from the previously removed words with corrected spelling was added | |
| 31 - a list of major rivers was added | |
| 32 - a list of place names was added | |
| 33 - a list of Australian mammals was added | |
| 34 - a list of Aboriginal/Koori words commonly used was added | |
| 35 | |
| 36 A total of 119,267 words are now recognized | |
| 37 by the dictionary. | |
| 38 | |
| 39 Of course, special thanks go to the editors of the | |
| 40 en_GB dictionary (David Bartlett, Brian Kelk and | |
| 41 Andrew Brown) which provided the starting point | |
| 42 for this dictionary. | |
| 43 | |
| 44 The affix file is currently a duplicate of the en_AU.aff | |
| 45 created completely from scratch by David Bartlett and | |
| 46 Andrew Brown, based on the published | |
| 47 rules for MySpell and is also provided under the LGPL. | |
| 48 | |
| 49 If you find omissions or bugs or have new words to | |
| 50 add to the dictionary, please contact the en_AU | |
| 51 maintainer at: | |
| 52 | |
| 53 "Kelvin" <audictionary@onlineconnections.com.au> | |
| 54 | |
| 55 | |
| 56 | |
| 57 =================================================== | |
| 58 en_CA: | |
| 59 The dictionary file was created using the "final" English and Canadian SCOWL (Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists) wordlists available at Kevin's Word Lists Page (http://wordlist.sourceforge.net). Lists with the suffixes 10, 20, 35, 50, 65 and 65 were used. Lists with the suffixes 70, 80 and 95 were excluded. Copyright information for SCOWL and the wordlists used in creating it is reproduced below. | |
| 60 | |
| 61 The affix file is identical to the MySpell English (United States) affix file. It is a heavily modified version of the original english.aff file which was released as part of Geoff Kuenning's Ispell and as such is covered by his BSD license. | |
| 62 | |
| 63 --- | |
| 64 | |
| 65 COPYRIGHT, SOURCES, and CREDITS from SCOWL readme file: | |
| 66 | |
| 67 The collective work is Copyright 2000 by Kevin Atkinson as well as any | |
| 68 of the copyrights mentioned below: | |
| 69 | |
| 70 Copyright 2000 by Kevin Atkinson | |
| 71 | |
| 72 Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell these word | |
| 73 lists, the associated scripts, the output created from the scripts, | |
| 74 and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, | |
| 75 provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and | |
| 76 that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in | |
| 77 supporting documentation. Kevin Atkinson makes no representations | |
| 78 about the suitability of this array for any purpose. It is provided | |
| 79 "as is" without express or implied warranty. | |
| 80 | |
| 81 Alan Beale <biljir@pobox.com> also deserves special credit as he has, | |
| 82 in addition to providing the 12Dicts package and being a major | |
| 83 contributor to the ENABLE word list, given me an incredible amount of | |
| 84 feedback and created a number of special lists (those found in the | |
| 85 Supplement) in order to help improve the overall quality of SCOWL. | |
| 86 | |
| 87 The 10 level includes the 1000 most common English words (according to | |
| 88 the Moby (TM) Words II [MWords] package), a subset of the 1000 most | |
| 89 common words on the Internet (again, according to Moby Words II), and | |
| 90 frequently class 16 from Brian Kelk's "UK English Wordlist | |
| 91 with Frequency Classification". | |
| 92 | |
| 93 The MWords package was explicitly placed in the public domain: | |
| 94 | |
| 95 The Moby lexicon project is complete and has | |
| 96 been place into the public domain. Use, sell, | |
| 97 rework, excerpt and use in any way on any platform. | |
| 98 | |
| 99 Placing this material on internal or public servers is | |
| 100 also encouraged. The compiler is not aware of any | |
| 101 export restrictions so freely distribute world-wide. | |
| 102 | |
| 103 You can verify the public domain status by contacting | |
| 104 | |
| 105 Grady Ward | |
| 106 3449 Martha Ct. | |
| 107 Arcata, CA 95521-4884 | |
| 108 | |
| 109 grady@netcom.com | |
| 110 grady@northcoast.com | |
| 111 | |
| 112 The "UK English Wordlist With Frequency Classification" is also in the | |
| 113 Public Domain: | |
| 114 | |
| 115 Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 20:27:21 +0100 | |
| 116 From: Brian Kelk <Brian.Kelk@cl.cam.ac.uk> | |
| 117 | |
| 118 > I was wondering what the copyright status of your "UK English | |
| 119 > Wordlist With Frequency Classification" word list as it seems to | |
| 120 > be lacking any copyright notice. | |
| 121 | |
| 122 There were many many sources in total, but any text marked | |
| 123 "copyright" was avoided. Locally-written documentation was one | |
| 124 source. An earlier version of the list resided in a filespace called | |
| 125 PUBLIC on the University mainframe, because it was considered public | |
| 126 domain. | |
| 127 | |
| 128 Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:31:34 +0100 | |
| 129 | |
| 130 > So are you saying your word list is also in the public domain? | |
| 131 | |
| 132 That is the intention. | |
| 133 | |
| 134 The 20 level includes frequency classes 7-15 from Brian's word list. | |
| 135 | |
| 136 The 35 level includes frequency classes 2-6 and words appearing in at | |
| 137 least 11 of 12 dictionaries as indicated in the 12Dicts package. All | |
| 138 words from the 12Dicts package have had likely inflections added via | |
| 139 my inflection database. | |
| 140 | |
| 141 The 12Dicts package and Supplement is in the Public Domain. | |
| 142 | |
| 143 The WordNet database, which was used in the creation of the | |
| 144 Inflections database, is under the following copyright: | |
| 145 | |
| 146 This software and database is being provided to you, the LICENSEE, | |
| 147 by Princeton University under the following license. By obtaining, | |
| 148 using and/or copying this software and database, you agree that you | |
| 149 have read, understood, and will comply with these terms and | |
| 150 conditions.: | |
| 151 | |
| 152 Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and | |
| 153 database and its documentation for any purpose and without fee or | |
| 154 royalty is hereby granted, provided that you agree to comply with | |
| 155 the following copyright notice and statements, including the | |
| 156 disclaimer, and that the same appear on ALL copies of the software, | |
| 157 database and documentation, including modifications that you make | |
| 158 for internal use or for distribution. | |
| 159 | |
| 160 WordNet 1.6 Copyright 1997 by Princeton University. All rights | |
| 161 reserved. | |
| 162 | |
| 163 THIS SOFTWARE AND DATABASE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND PRINCETON | |
| 164 UNIVERSITY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR | |
| 165 IMPLIED. BY WAY OF EXAMPLE, BUT NOT LIMITATION, PRINCETON | |
| 166 UNIVERSITY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF MERCHANT- | |
| 167 ABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR THAT THE USE OF THE | |
| 168 LICENSED SOFTWARE, DATABASE OR DOCUMENTATION WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY | |
| 169 THIRD PARTY PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, TRADEMARKS OR OTHER RIGHTS. | |
| 170 | |
| 171 The name of Princeton University or Princeton may not be used in | |
| 172 advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software | |
| 173 and/or database. Title to copyright in this software, database and | |
| 174 any associated documentation shall at all times remain with | |
| 175 Princeton University and LICENSEE agrees to preserve same. | |
| 176 | |
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178 at least 5 of 12 of the dictionaries as indicated in the 12Dicts |
| 446 | 179 package, and uppercase words in at least 4 of the previous 12 |
| 180 dictionaries. A decent number of proper names is also included: The | |
| 181 top 1000 male, female, and Last names from the 1990 Census report; a | |
| 182 list of names sent to me by Alan Beale; and a few names that I added | |
| 183 myself. Finally a small list of abbreviations not commonly found in | |
| 184 other word lists is included. | |
| 185 | |
| 186 The name files form the Census report is a government document which I | |
| 187 don't think can be copyrighted. | |
| 188 | |
| 189 The name list from Alan Beale is also derived from the linux words | |
| 190 list, which is derived from the DEC list. He also added a bunch of | |
| 191 miscellaneous names to the list, which he released to the Public Domain. | |
| 192 | |
| 193 The DEC Word list doesn't have a formal name. It is labeled as "FILE: | |
| 194 english.words; VERSION: DEC-SRC-92-04-05" and was put together by Jorge | |
| 195 Stolfi <stolfi@src.dec.com> DEC Systems Research Center. The DEC Word | |
| 196 list has the following copyright statement: | |
| 197 | |
| 198 (NON-)COPYRIGHT STATUS | |
| 199 | |
| 200 To the best of my knowledge, all the files I used to build these | |
| 201 wordlists were available for public distribution and use, at least | |
| 202 for non-commercial purposes. I have confirmed this assumption with | |
| 203 the authors of the lists, whenever they were known. | |
| 204 | |
| 205 Therefore, it is safe to assume that the wordlists in this package | |
| 206 can also be freely copied, distributed, modified, and used for | |
| 207 personal, educational, and research purposes. (Use of these files in | |
| 208 commercial products may require written permission from DEC and/or | |
| 209 the authors of the original lists.) | |
| 210 | |
| 211 Whenever you distribute any of these wordlists, please distribute | |
| 212 also the accompanying README file. If you distribute a modified | |
| 213 copy of one of these wordlists, please include the original README | |
| 214 file with a note explaining your modifications. Your users will | |
| 215 surely appreciate that. | |
| 216 | |
| 217 (NO-)WARRANTY DISCLAIMER | |
| 218 | |
| 219 These files, like the original wordlists on which they are based, | |
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220 are still very incomplete, uneven, and inconsistent, and probably |
| 446 | 221 contain many errors. They are offered "as is" without any warranty |
| 222 of correctness or fitness for any particular purpose. Neither I nor | |
| 223 my employer can be held responsible for any losses or damages that | |
| 224 may result from their use. | |
| 225 | |
| 226 However since this Word List is used in the linux.words package which | |
| 227 the author claims is free of any copyright I assume it is OK to use | |
| 228 for most purposes. If you want to use this in a commercial project | |
| 229 and this concerns you the information from the DEC word list can | |
| 230 easily be removed without much sacrifice in quality as only the name | |
| 231 lists were used. | |
| 232 | |
| 233 The file special-jargon.50 uses common.lst and word.lst from the | |
| 234 "Unofficial Jargon File Word Lists" which is derived from "The Jargon | |
| 235 File". All of which is in the Public Domain. This file also contain | |
| 236 a few extra UNIX terms which are found in the file "unix-terms" in the | |
| 237 special/ directory. | |
| 238 | |
| 239 The 60 level includes Brian's frequency class 0 and all words | |
| 240 appearing in at least 2 of the 12 dictionaries as indicated by the | |
| 241 12Dicts package. A large number of names are also included: The 4,946 | |
| 242 female names and 3,897 male names from the MWords package and the | |
| 243 files "computer.names", "misc.names", and "org.names" from the DEC | |
| 244 package. | |
| 245 | |
| 246 The 65 level includes words found in the Ispell "medium" word list. | |
| 247 The Ispell word lists are under the same copyright of Ispell itself | |
| 248 which is: | |
| 249 | |
| 250 Copyright 1993, Geoff Kuenning, Granada Hills, CA | |
| 251 All rights reserved. | |
| 252 | |
| 253 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without | |
| 254 modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions | |
| 255 are met: | |
| 256 | |
| 257 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright | |
| 258 notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. | |
| 259 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright | |
| 260 notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the | |
| 261 documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. | |
| 262 3. All modifications to the source code must be clearly marked as | |
| 263 such. Binary redistributions based on modified source code | |
| 264 must be clearly marked as modified versions in the documentation | |
| 265 and/or other materials provided with the distribution. | |
| 266 4. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software | |
| 267 must display the following acknowledgment: | |
| 268 This product includes software developed by Geoff Kuenning and | |
| 269 other unpaid contributors. | |
| 270 5. The name of Geoff Kuenning may not be used to endorse or promote | |
| 271 products derived from this software without specific prior | |
| 272 written permission. | |
| 273 | |
| 274 THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY GEOFF KUENNING AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS | |
| 275 IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT | |
| 276 LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS | |
| 277 FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL GEOFF | |
| 278 KUENNING OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, | |
| 279 INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, | |
| 280 BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; | |
| 281 LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER | |
| 282 CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT | |
| 283 LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN | |
| 284 ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE | |
| 285 POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. | |
| 286 | |
| 287 The 70 level includes the 74,550 common dictionary words and the 21,986 names | |
| 288 list from the MWords package. The common dictionary words, like those | |
| 289 from the 12Dicts package, have had all likely inflections added. | |
| 290 | |
| 291 The 80 level includes the ENABLE word list, all the lists in the | |
| 292 ENABLE supplement package (except for ABLE), the "UK Advanced Cryptics | |
| 293 Dictionary" (UKACD), the list of signature words in from YAWL package, | |
| 294 and the 10,196 places list from the MWords package. | |
| 295 | |
| 296 The ENABLE package, mainted by M\Cooper <thegrendel@theriver.com>, | |
| 297 is in the Public Domain: | |
| 298 | |
| 299 The ENABLE master word list, WORD.LST, is herewith formally released | |
| 300 into the Public Domain. Anyone is free to use it or distribute it in | |
| 301 any manner they see fit. No fee or registration is required for its | |
| 302 use nor are "contributions" solicited (if you feel you absolutely | |
| 303 must contribute something for your own peace of mind, the authors of | |
| 304 the ENABLE list ask that you make a donation on their behalf to your | |
| 305 favorite charity). This word list is our gift to the Scrabble | |
| 306 community, as an alternate to "official" word lists. Game designers | |
| 307 may feel free to incorporate the WORD.LST into their games. Please | |
| 308 mention the source and credit us as originators of the list. Note | |
| 309 that if you, as a game designer, use the WORD.LST in your product, | |
| 310 you may still copyright and protect your product, but you may *not* | |
| 311 legally copyright or in any way restrict redistribution of the | |
| 312 WORD.LST portion of your product. This *may* under law restrict your | |
| 313 rights to restrict your users' rights, but that is only fair. | |
| 314 | |
| 315 UKACD, by J Ross Beresford <ross@bryson.demon.co.uk>, is under the | |
| 316 following copyright: | |
| 317 | |
| 318 Copyright (c) J Ross Beresford 1993-1999. All Rights Reserved. | |
| 319 | |
| 320 The following restriction is placed on the use of this publication: | |
| 321 if The UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary is used in a software package | |
| 322 or redistributed in any form, the copyright notice must be | |
| 323 prominently displayed and the text of this document must be included | |
| 324 verbatim. | |
| 325 | |
| 326 There are no other restrictions: I would like to see the list | |
| 327 distributed as widely as possible. | |
| 328 | |
| 329 The 95 level includes the 354,984 single words and 256,772 compound | |
| 330 words from the MWords package, ABLE.LST from the ENABLE Supplement, | |
| 331 and some additional words found in my part-of-speech database that | |
| 332 were not found anywhere else. | |
| 333 | |
| 334 Accent information was taken from UKACD. | |
| 335 | |
| 336 My VARCON package was used to create the American, British, and | |
| 337 Canadian word list. | |
| 338 | |
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340 the Ispell distribution they are under the Ispell copyright. |
| 446 | 341 |
| 342 The variant word lists were created from a list of variants found in | |
| 343 the 12dicts supplement package as well as a list of variants I created | |
| 344 myself. | |
| 345 | |
| 346 | |
| 347 | |
| 348 | |
| 349 =================================================== | |
| 350 en_GB: | |
| 351 This dictionary was initially based on a subset of the | |
| 352 original English wordlist created by Kevin Atkinson for | |
| 353 Pspell and Aspell and thus is covered by his original | |
| 354 LGPL licence. | |
| 355 | |
| 356 It has been extensively updated by David Bartlett, Brian Kelk | |
| 357 and Andrew Brown: | |
| 358 - numerous Americanism have been removed | |
| 359 - numerous American spellings have been corrected | |
| 360 - missing words have been added | |
| 361 - many errors have been corrected | |
| 362 - compound hyphenated words have been added where appropriate | |
| 363 | |
| 364 Valuable inputs to this process were received from many other | |
| 365 people - far too numerous to name. Serious thanks to you all | |
| 366 for your greatly appreciated help. | |
| 367 | |
| 368 This word list is intended to be a good representation of | |
| 369 current modern British English and thus it should be a good | |
| 370 basis for Commonwealth English in most countries of the world | |
| 371 outside North America. | |
| 372 | |
| 373 The affix file has been created completely from scratch | |
| 374 by David Bartlett and Andrew Brown, based on the published | |
| 375 rules for MySpell and is also provided under the LGPL. | |
| 376 | |
| 377 In creating the affix rules an attempt has been made to | |
| 378 reproduce the most general rules for English word | |
| 379 formation, rather than merely use it as a means to | |
| 380 compress the size of the dictionary. It is hoped that this | |
| 381 will facilitate future localisation to other variants of | |
| 382 English. | |
| 383 | |
| 384 Please let David Bartlett <dwb@openoffice.org> know of any | |
| 385 errors that you find. | |
| 386 | |
| 387 The current release is R 1.18, 11/04/05 | |
| 388 =================================================== | |
| 389 en_NZ: | |
| 390 I. Copyright | |
| 391 II. Copying (Licence) | |
| 392 ---------------------------- | |
| 393 | |
| 394 I. Copyright | |
| 395 | |
| 396 NZ English Dictionary v0.9 beta - Build 06SEP03 | |
| 397 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
| 398 NB This is an initial version, please check: | |
| 399 http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/download_dictionary.html | |
| 400 or | |
| 401 http://www.girlza.com/dictionary/download.html | |
| 402 for a final version, after a little while (no hurry). | |
| 403 | |
| 404 This dictionary is based on the en_GB Myspell dictionary | |
| 405 which in turn was initially based on a subset of the | |
| 406 original English wordlist created by Kevin Atkinson for | |
| 407 Pspell and Aspell and thus is covered by his original | |
| 408 LGPL licence. | |
| 409 | |
| 410 | |
| 411 Introduction | |
| 412 ~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
| 413 en_NZ.dic has been altered to include New Zealand places, | |
| 414 including major cities and towns, and major suburbs. It | |
| 415 also contains NZ words, organisations and expressions. | |
| 416 | |
| 417 en_NZ.aff has had a few REPlace strings added, but is | |
| 418 basically unchanged. | |
| 419 | |
| 420 | |
| 421 Acknowledgements | |
| 422 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
| 423 Thanks must go to the original creators of the British | |
| 424 dictionary, David Bartlett, Brian Kelk and Andrew Brown. | |
| 425 | |
| 426 I wouldn't have started this without seeing the Australian | |
| 427 dictionary, thanks Kelvin Eldridge, Jean Hollis Weber and | |
| 428 David Wilson. | |
| 429 | |
| 430 And thank you to all who've contributed to OpenOffice.org. | |
| 431 | |
| 432 | |
| 433 License | |
| 434 ~~~~~~~ | |
| 435 This dictionary is covered by the GNU Lesser General Public | |
| 436 License, viewable at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html | |
| 437 | |
| 438 | |
| 439 Issues | |
| 440 ~~~~~~ | |
| 441 Many of the proper nouns already in the dictionary do not have | |
| 442 an affix for 's. | |
| 443 All my new words start after the z's of the original dictionary. | |
| 444 | |
| 445 | |
| 446 Contact | |
| 447 ~~~~~~~ | |
| 448 Contact Tristan Burtenshaw (hooty@slingshot.co.nz) with any words, | |
| 449 places or other suggestions for the dictionary. | |
| 450 | |
| 451 | |
| 452 | |
| 453 II. Copying | |
| 454 | |
| 455 GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE | |
| 456 Version 2.1, February 1999 | |
| 457 | |
| 458 Copyright (C) 1991, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | |
| 459 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA | |
| 460 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies | |
| 461 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. | |
| 462 | |
| 463 [This is the first released version of the Lesser GPL. It also counts | |
| 464 as the successor of the GNU Library Public License, version 2, hence | |
| 465 the version number 2.1.] | |
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