Copyright 2000-2026 by Kevin Atkinson

Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell any part of the English
Speller Database (ESDB, previously known as SCOWLv2), or word lists created
from it, is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright
notice appears in all copies and that both the above copyright notice and this
notice appear in supporting documentation. Kevin Atkinson makes no
representations about the suitability of this database for any purpose. It is
provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.

ESDB is derived from many sources, most of which are in the Public Domain.
Data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) was also used.

All data from COCA comes from 3-gram data that is not freely available;
however, the usage is within the rights given by the NDA that was signed when
purchasing the data. More information on COCA is available at
https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/.

The primary source of words for ESDB comes from 12dicts and ENABLE2K. Both are
in the Public Domain, but Alan Beale <biljir@pobox.com> deserves special credit
as he is the author of 12dicts and a major contributor to ENABLE2K. In
addition, he gave Kevin Atkinson feedback and created a number of special lists
in order to help improve the overall quality of ESDB.
