There are a few dictionaries on my system,
/usr/share/dict/words
/usr/share/dict/american-english
/usr/share/dict/british-english
/usr/share/dict/ngerman
...and so on.
How are these files licensed to me? Which project / package provides them?
2 Answers
First you need to determine what package the files belong to. You can use dpkg -S searchterm for that. For example, dpkg -S /usr/share/dict/american-english yields:
wamerican: /usr/share/dict/american-englishSo, the subject package is wamerican. All packages I know of have a copyright file in /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE-NAME/copyright. wamerican is not an exception, it's copyright file is in /usr/share/doc/wamerican/copyright.
Find the license by clicking the specific package and looking at the copyright over on the right.
(Found this by googling /usr/share/dict/words, and the wikipedia page (Unix) said it was the wordlist package)
For example, the american-huge wordlist copyright is here:
