Licenses

What Wrdsmth is built on

Word lists

The puzzles are generated from SCOWL, which decides which words are ordinary enough to require, and ENABLE1, which decides what the game will accept.

Copyright 2000–2016 by Kevin Atkinson

Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell these word lists, the associated scripts, the output created from the scripts, and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. Kevin Atkinson makes no representations about the suitability of this array for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.

ENABLE1 is in the public domain, compiled by Mel Nichols with Alan Beale — who also contributed much of SCOWL and created several of its supplementary lists.

Typeface

Quicksand by Andrew Paglinawan, used under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The full licence ships with the font at /fonts/OFL.txt.