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Use Mozilla's proper names wordlist in my dictionaries

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Heya,

I am the maintainer of the British Dictionary.

For one year that I have been working in the "shadows" on my version of US+Canada+Australian, to be released on 1-JAN-2026.

Can I add your list of proper names (~5000 words) to my dictionaries and release the dictionaries as LGPL?

https://searchfox.org/firefox-main/source/extensions/spellcheck/locales/en-US/hunspell/dictionary-sources/5-mozilla-added.txt

Thank you!

Heya, I am the maintainer of the British Dictionary. For one year that I have been working in the "shadows" on my version of US+Canada+Australian, to be released on 1-JAN-2026. Can I add your list of proper names (~5000 words) to my dictionaries and release the dictionaries as LGPL? https://searchfox.org/firefox-main/source/extensions/spellcheck/locales/en-US/hunspell/dictionary-sources/5-mozilla-added.txt Thank you!

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Hey Marco,

Good news! Our legal team confirmed this should be ok. (:

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I think you should contact Mozilla staff for this issue. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/groups/mozilla-staff/

Or maybe try https://chat.mozilla.org/ if you have Matrix.

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Hi Marco,

Thanks for checking with us. This has been escalated internally. We'll let you know once we hear something from our team.

Modified by Kiki

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Heya, @Kiki,

Any updates on this subject?

Almost a month has gone by since your reply.

Thanks.

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Hey Marco,

Apologies if this completely slipped through my attention and now I don't remember where I asked initially. But surely I haven't got any replies so far. Will check again!

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الحل المُختار

Hey Marco,

Good news! Our legal team confirmed this should be ok. (:

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Kiki said

Hey Marco, Good news! Our legal team confirmed this should be ok. (:

Heya,

Thank you!

That decision made the British, the South African and the other three dictionaries I will start maintaining on 1-JAN-2026 better.

The "cola demon",

  >Marco A.G.Pinto
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PS-> "cola demon" was coined by a Thunderbird developer when the Mozilla IRC network existed.

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Marco A.G.Pinto said

Heya, Thank you! That decision made the British, the South African and the other three dictionaries I will start maintaining on 1-JAN-2026 better. The "cola demon", >Marco A.G.Pinto ----------------- PS-> "cola demon" was coined by a Thunderbird developer when the Mozilla IRC network existed.

I'm glad Firefox can contribute to it. Good luck with the project! (:

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