I recently started a software project (a Fediverse bot) which requires the use of an external wordlist, and Slackware's version of /usr/share/dict/words appears to work a lot better with it than the GNU miscfiles version that most other distros provide.

I was thinking of including Slackware's /usr/share/dict/words with the project, but I am unable to find out information on the origin or license (I assume one of the BSD licenses?) of the file. The file is available on Slackware's FTP site in the bsd-games source folder as "hangman-words.gz" and is dated 1993-10-25.

http://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwa...e/y/bsd-games/

Is there any way to find out the origin and license of this file?

Thank you!

From the file THANKS in the /usr/doc/bsd-games-<version> directory:
and in the file NEWS, same directory, it says:

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SCOWL is an alternate source for word lists: http://wordlist.aspell.net/
They have premade lists, or use the UI to make a custom list.

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Thank you, I took one of the public domain wordlists there and added it to the project as a sample wordlist. I continue to recommend users download Slackware's wordlist in the documentation.

I know this thread is old, but it seems like the relevant place.

We were discussing misc file updates in ##slackware-help today and it prompted me to share my words list:

http://ciar.org/h/words

It's based on Slackware's, and is a strict superset of Slackware's words list, but with twenty'ish years of my own additions. It's more than twice the size, but excludes a lot of nonsense-words found in other distributions' word lists.

I'm pretty happy with it, but YMMV. Please use it if you like, or not, whatever :-)

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