The file "en-us.dict" is taken from the "american-english" word list supplied in the Debian "wenglish" package. A small amount of processing was used to produce this file: cat /usr/share/dict/american-english | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' | sort \ | uniq > en-us.dict "en-us.dict" is to be considered "freely redistributable," and is not subject to the MPL as with the rest of Venice code. Herewith is the original copyright for the dictionary: This package is now maintained by Charles Briscoe-Smith . I, Erick Branderhorst , took over the wenglish package but I don't know where the list of words is from. If it is uptodate or copyrighted or whatever. This package was debianized by Herbert Xu herbert@debian.org on Sat, 8 Feb 1997 22:16:50 +1100. It was downloaded from http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/libs/. Copyright: Begin2 Title = /usr/dict/words for Linux (linux.words) Version = 2 Desc1 = This is word list containing 45402 words. Great care has been Desc2 = taken to be sure that this word list is free of copyright. Desc3 = This list is suitable for English language spelling checkers Desc4 = and as a target for look(1). Author = Rik Faith AuthorEmail = faith@cs.unc.edu Maintainer = Rik Faith MaintEmail = faith@cs.unc.edu Site1 = ftp.cs.unc.edu Path1 = /pub/faith/linux/utils File1 = linux.words.2.tar.gz FileSize1 = 140k Site2 = tsx-11.mit.edu Path2 = /pub/linux/docs Site3 = sunsite.unc.edu Path3 = /pub/Linux/libs CopyPolicy1 = Free of non-commercial restrictions. CopyPolicy2 = Free for personal, educational, and research purposes. Keywords = dict, dictionary, words, wordlist Entered = Sun Oct 10 19:02:47 1993 EnteredBy = Rik Faith CheckedEmail = faith@cs.unc.edu End