X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?p=wordgame;a=blobdiff_plain;f=COPYING-wordlists;fp=COPYING-wordlists;h=b41c3c3038f3ef9b133b8b99ed6ca3c604e92c53;hp=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hb=68466572ce337908614fb489601cd1590e142677;hpb=a26e439b57a16e31a8fb67a079cbad659c21fd39 diff --git a/COPYING-wordlists b/COPYING-wordlists new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b41c3c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/COPYING-wordlists @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +Here is a description of the source and licensing for the three word +lists included in the wordgame package: + +words.txt +========= + This file contains the OWL2+LWL lexicon as contained in Michael + Thelen's excellent zyzzyva program, available under the GPL from + http://www.zyzzyva.net/ + + Michael has the following to say about the lexicon: + + Zyzzyva's OWL2+LWL lexicon is 100% accurate as verified by the + metrics available on the NSA Dictionary Committee's + website[*]. Zyzzyva has been used successfully as a Word Judge at + many North American SCRABBLE® tournaments, including BAT, + Oregon TILE, and the 2006 U.S. SCRABBLE® Open! + + http://www.scrabble-assoc.com/boards/dictionary/octwl2.html + + The relevant information from the dictionary committee website is as + follows: + + If you're not sure you have the correct version of the digital + file, here are some statistics you can check. There are + currently 101 2-letter words, 1015 3, 4030 4, 8938 5, 15788 6, + 24029 7, 29766 8, 29150 9, 22326 10, 16165 11, 11417 12, 7750 + 13, 5059 14 and 3157 15. The master file lists all words in + lower case in alphabetical order, one per line, with each line + terminated by a Unix line break. It is 1763167 bytes long and + has BSD checksum ('cksum -o 1') 12722, System V checkum + ('cksum -o 2') 24638, 32-bit CRC ('cksum -o 3') 2022312244, + ISO/IEC 8802-3:1989 checksum ('cksum') 427611949 and MD5 + checksum dfd408f47cc1a324eb0ab5577910e4e3. + + I (Carl Worth) have verified the contents of words.txt as included + in the wordgame package with resepct to the word counts listed + above as well as the MD5 checksum. + +obscure.txt +=========== + I created this file from both words.txt and 2of12inf.txt (described + below). It consists of words which appear in OWL2+LWL but that do + not appear in 2of12inf.txt. Note that this list does not include + the 1083 2-15 letter words that appear in 2of12inf.txt but not in + OWL2+LWL nor does it contain the 832 words in 2of12inf.txt that + have more than 15 letters. + + For the purposes of generating obscure.txt, the plurals of + uncountable nouns marked with % are considered as included in + 2of12inf.txt, (that is, they are not considered obscure). + +2of12inf.txt +============ + This word list is the result of an attempt to create a list of + common English words suitable for use in a word game. The list is + the result of efforts by Kevin Atkinson and Alan Beale. The list + was obtained as part of the 12dicts package from: + + http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/12dicts-readme.html + + The copyright and licensing for this word list is detailed below: + +The final product is under the following copyright, as well as any +copyrights mentioned below. + + Copyright 2000 by Kevin Atkinson + + Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell this database, + the associated scripts, the output created form 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. 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Title to copyright in this software, database and + any associated documentation shall at all times remain with + Princeton University and LICENSEE agrees to preserve same. + +The word list used is a combination of several word list: + +1) Most of the word lists from the Moby Words package: + + 10196pla.ces 113809of.fic 21986na.mes 256772co.mpo 354984si.ngl + 3897male.nam 4160offi.cia 4946fema.len 6213acro.nym 74550com.mon + + The Moby Word package, like the Part-Of-Speech database is in the + public domain. + +2) The ENABLE2K word lists which 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. + +3) All of the word lists in the ENABLE2K Supplemnt which consists of: + + 2DICTS.LST ALSO.LST LETTERS.LST OSPDADD.LST UCACR.LST + ABLE.LST LCACR.LST NOPOS.LST PLURALS.LST UPPER.LST + + All of these word lists are also in the public domain. + +4) The list of signature words from the YAWL package which is in the + public domain. + +5) The UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary which in 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. + +6) Some extra words found in the Part-Of-Speech database that was not + found in any of the above word list. + +7) Words found in the Jargon File Word List package, available at + http://aspell.sourceforge.net/wl/, which is in the Public Domain. + +8) And finally some extra words that I added myself. These words can be + found in the file "extra-words" + +The "dontuse", "irregular", and "variant" file was created by me +(Kevin Atkinson) from numerous sources.