Re: [bug-miscfiles] Re: 'box' missing from web2?

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   >     I just downloaded the 1.4.2 files
   > 
   > I also do not see "box" in the miscfiles-1.4.2 "web2" word list.
   > 
   > Miscfile maintainers, can you add it?

   I found "box" in my /usr/dict/words, which inspired me to do 2 things:

What kind of system is this?  What is the words file based on this
system?

BSD seems to be missing box as well, I guess BSD people don't need
boxes...  But web2a has words that beging with `box', peculiar.

   The obvious thing to do deprecate web2 in favor of SCOWL (it only needs
   "youdendrift" and a few others to become a superset)

Not sure if this is a good idea, the license seems to be incompatible
with the GPL, reproducing the copyright notice in `supporting
documentation' is a clause that isn't in the GPL.

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On a first glance I think that it would be bad to modify web2 so that
it is different from the word list that was WEB2. Maybe introduce a
`words' list file that is a merge of multiple word lists?