From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 3 2:29:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B92D31547A for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 02:29:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: (from hamellr@localhost) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id CAA05670; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 02:22:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 02:22:43 -0800 (PST) From: rick hamell To: Rob Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Dictionary In-Reply-To: <19990303045313.B1500@net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > This might sound like a stupid question, but how is it possible > to "copyright" a dictionary? I(c) mean(c), they(c) don't(c) own(c) > the(c) words(c), do they? > At the very least, it would seem that Webster's would be hard- > pressed to prove that somebody "stole" their word list. Not really, Websters tends to define words differently then other dictionary compaines. As such they could easily prove that a list of words is 'thier's.' It would be nice to have a more up to date list, but until someone has the time to sit down and enter them.... perhaps there is already an onnline resource that 'we' could borrow from? I know there are tons of scrabble dictionaries onnline... Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message