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+This is a Debian prepackaged version of the festival poslex database.
+
+This package was put together by Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org>, using
+sources from:
+ http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival.html
+
+This directory contains a lexicon (wsj.wp39.poslexR) and an ngram
+(wsj.wp39.tri.ngrambin) for English part of speech tagging.
+Information in these files were derived from the Penn Tree Bank
+diustributed by the LDC, in tur derived from data from the Wall
+Street Journal. These models fall under the following copyright
+without conflict from the material the models were trained from
+
+ Centre for Speech Technology Research
+ University of Edinburgh, UK
+ Copyright (c) 1996,1997
+ All Rights Reserved.
+
+ Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to use and distribute
+ this software and its documentation without restriction, including
+ without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+ distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of this work, and to
+ permit persons to whom this work is furnished to do so, subject to
+ the following conditions:
+ 1. The code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of
+ conditions and the following disclaimer.
+ 2. Any modifications must be clearly marked as such.
+ 3. Original authors' names are not deleted.
+ 4. The authors' names are not used to endorse or promote products
+ derived from this software without specific prior written
+ permission.
+
+ THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH AND THE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS WORK
+ DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING
+ ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO EVENT
+ SHALL THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH NOR THE CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
+ FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
+ WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN
+ AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION,
+ ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF
+ THIS SOFTWARE.
+
+Note this voice (as it currently is set up) also requires the separate
+distributions festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz and festlex_OALD.tar.gz.
+festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz fall under the same copyright as the above
+but festlex_OALD.tar.gz is free for non-commercial use only.
+
+(ignore the above, it doesn't pertain to POSLEX itself) \ No newline at end of file