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 <cpbs@debian.org>.
I, Erick Branderhorst <branderhorst@heel.fgg.eur.nl>, 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