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Third-Party Notices

This file records the provenance and declared licensing of third-party lexical data used or prepared for use by MiniGames. It is an engineering inventory, not legal advice or a determination that every planned use, distribution method, or deployment is cleared. Preserve upstream notices and review license obligations whenever an artifact, container, downloadable bundle, or content pipeline changes.

Production lexical catalog

dariusk/corpora common words

  • Pinned version: cf30ca27ab176b63623af1ddcfa2447ac07305ba
  • Declared license: CC0-1.0
  • Provenance: the production catalog reads data/words/common.json from the pinned dariusk/corpora repository.

Webster's English Dictionary generated JSON

  • Pinned version: 6fb9c92420c3a323e74ffb9d577409f4431cc42a
  • Declared license: GPL-2.0-only
  • Provenance: the production catalog reads dictionary_compact.json from the pinned WebstersEnglishDictionary repository. The repository README describes its generated JSON as GPL v2; preserve and review the applicable GPL obligations.

dwyl English words

  • Pinned version: 20f5cc9b3f0ccc8ce45d814c532b7c2031bba31c
  • Rights basis: public-domain Moby Word Lists data; the dwyl repository declares the Unlicense for its repository contributions
  • Provenance: the production catalog reads words_dictionary.json from the pinned dwyl/english-words repository. The artifact is a JSON transformation of a Moby-derived, filtered word list that dwyl lightly maintained. The direct JSON history after its creation adds dino, removes the invalid or misspelled entries zoogrpahy, acceleratorh, and unneccessary, and splits coevolvedcoevolves into coevolved and coevolves.

Crossword Nexus Collaborative Word List

  • Pinned version: b51b2ad6876c1dc3f9df212e1ed8535fc9e4770a
  • Declared license: MIT
  • Provenance: the implemented adapter reads xwordlist.dict and preserves its native score from the pinned Collaborative Word List repository. It is registered in the production catalog to preserve the public Crossword dictionary style; Reverse Cross itself remains fixture-backed.

Peter Broda scored crossword word list

  • Pinned version: canonical LF-normalized SHA-256 5b17673951d3f5ea93f31063d4e2cc90610212d4234cdef2e1528196f1bac8d6
  • Rights reference: LicenseRef-PeterBroda-Wordlist
  • Attribution: Peter Broda's crossword word-list site
  • Provenance: The supplied pb_xword_dict_scored_ORIG.txt contained 527,347 scored records. It was sorted and deduplicated as set A (no duplicates were found), the pinned Crossword Nexus word keys were treated as set B, and the checked-in pb_xword_dict_scored_UNIQUE.txt was produced as A minus B. This reduced the packaged artifact to 37,911 records while preserving Peter Broda's source-native 1-100 scores; the shared catalog would otherwise have merged the same overlapping word keys at runtime. The current adapter admits 37,903 alphabetic grid entries and excludes eight records containing punctuation or digits that the current grid normalization contract does not remove.

The word list is broadly distributed for crossword use with credit to Peter Broda. The upstream site is undergoing maintenance and its exact license text is temporarily unavailable, so the project uses a specific LicenseRef rather than asserting an SPDX license identifier. Preserve this attribution and replace the rights reference with the exact terms when the source page is available again.

Fabien Snauwaert Frequency List

  • Pinned version: canonical LF-normalized SHA-256 9af47c24281901988a4b53fe4e3a61b1e770e7057cd75008fec88b1c57c7a437
  • Rights reference: LicenseRef-FrequencyList
  • Attribution: Fabien Snauwaert's Frequency List
  • Provenance: Frequency List describes the vocabulary as the 5,000 words Americans most often say, ranked from a balanced corpus of television shows. The checked-in TSV is an offline-prepared, game-oriented projection containing 10,618 surface forms expanded from those lemmas and reduced to word, proper-noun, and abbreviation classifications. The adapter currently admits 10,512 ASCII-alphabetic grid entries and excludes 106 records containing spaces, punctuation, or digits.

The source page offers the full list as a free download and says it may be printed, studied, and shared with students. It credits Fabien Snauwaert as the list's creator but does not state an SPDX license or an explicit general commercial-use grant. Preserve the attribution and this specific rights reference; re-review the source terms if deployment or redistribution requirements change.

Verbolus compiled common English words

  • Pinned version: canonical LF-normalized SHA-256 d4e0cd1c44a99039f377ae58c83f3ea3b7aaacf2157c47dcc36027896662812d
  • Rights reference: LicenseRef-Verbolus-Common-English-Compilation
  • Attribution: Verbolus compilation maintained in the pinned artifact commit
  • Provenance: The list was assembled over time from multiple small common-word lists encountered in blog posts, forums, and similar public locations. Those constituent source locations, authors, versions, and terms were not retained. The combined list was sorted and deduplicated before being supplied as 9,898 lowercase rows. The adapter admits 9,897 ASCII-alphabetic words and excludes the fragment n't, which the current letter-only grid contract cannot represent.

The mechanical Verbolus compilation is identified, but the provenance and rights of its constituent lists are unresolved. Sorting, deduplication, and combining word lists do not establish rights in their source compilations. Do not infer a third-party license or attribution from this notice; recover and review constituent sources if a deployment or redistribution decision requires verified rights.

Rights review decision

The dwyl repository's README attributes the source data to Infochimps, while the underlying Moby Word Lists distribution and Project Gutenberg publication identify the data as public domain in the United States. The production artifact's later dwyl changes are limited to mechanical format and list maintenance plus the individual-word edits documented above. MiniGames therefore treats this pinned source as usable for production and redistribution on the basis of the Moby public-domain grant, with dwyl credited for its transformation and maintenance. Re-review this decision if the pinned artifact, upstream source, intended jurisdiction, or distribution model changes.

TestWordsSource is test/prototype material with no verified production provenance. It is not registered in the production lexical catalog and must not be promoted there without its own source and rights review.