en_GB vs en_GB-MIT

[ccoVeille]

I found out that these two dictionaries exist.

• https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-dicts/tree/main/dictionaries%2Fen_GB
• https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-dicts/tree/main/dictionaries%2Fen_GB-MIT

I'm using a discussion, so we can easily dig into each details

[ccoVeille]

I then found out the root cause is likely to be the fact hunspell has different license for en_GB than the others

So, I assume you tried to mitigate the issue of having an en_GB with a more restrictive license, by creating a dictionary focused on en_GB from another sources.

[ccoVeille]

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[ccoVeille]

What I don't get is where the old files comes from.

I feel like it should be mentioned

I'm working on documenting where to add words, and the fact I don't have an idea from where this "old file" comes is a kind of issue to me.

I mean you say its license is MIT, but where does this file comes from.

Thanks

[ccoVeille]

I had found this, no worries

This dictionary was initially based on a subset of the original English wordlist created by Kevin Atkinson for Pspell and Aspell and thus is covered by his original LGPL licence.

My point is more about: do you have an URL that could be used as a reference

[ccoVeille]

@Jason3S do you have an URL then?

I would like to be able to mention it somewhere

[Jason3S]

I'm partial owner of interglot, a translation website (in need of an update). Some of my word lists are more than 30 years old and I do not have their source.

I'll work on trying to ensure that the en_GB-mit dictionary is MIT compliant.

[ccoVeille]

I opened

• en_GB-MIT status and license #4348

[Jason3S]

The intent of en_GB-MIT is to have a MIT license of the en-GB dictionary. CSpell cannot ship dictionaries with a GPL like license.

The original en-GB word list was created years ago from a mixed set of sources, some of them my own. It did not use the en-GB Hunspell file in the beginning. That was added later not realizing that it contained a GPL license. When the issue was raised, an attempt at splitting out the words into two different lists was made. But I didn't have the time to finish it.

[ccoVeille]

Thanks for confirming this.

I will update the readme files I'm working on with this info