diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 6afd6f3f1..3a304b14f 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -227,17 +227,16 @@ task copyFilesToDistDir (type: Copy, dependsOn : ['jar', 'compileHtrootServlets'
     include 'addon/**'
     include 'bin/**'
     include 'defaults/**'
-    include 'dictionaries/**'
     include 'examples/**'
     include 'gradle/**'
     include 'htroot/**'
     include 'langdetect/**'
-    //include 'lib/**'  // do not copy old ant lib, gradle dependencies will be copied into lib by task copy copyDependenciesForDistribution
+    // include 'lib/**'  // do not copy old ant lib, gradle dependencies will be copied into lib by task copy copyDependenciesForDistribution
     include 'libbuild/**'
     include 'locales/**'
     include 'skins/**'
     include 'source/**'
-    include 'vocabularies/**'
+//    include 'vocabularies/**' // not included in prev releases
 
     include '*.bat' 
     include '*.sh'
diff --git a/dictionaries/readme.txt b/dictionaries/readme.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 0e9197f2e..000000000
--- a/dictionaries/readme.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-The dictionaries directory contains files that YaCy can use to generate
-- better 'did you mean' hints
-- annotated content for search navigation (future feature)
-
-These files are once read and translated into a YaCy-internal format.
-
-
-To integrate dictionaries, you must download them separately in store them in DATA/DICTIONARIES/source
-You can do that with the following files:
-
-
-Korpusbasierte Wortgrundformliste DeReWo des Institut für Deutsche Sprache:
-derewo-v-30000g-2007-12-31-0.1.txt
-from
-http://www.ids-mannheim.de/kl/derewo/derewo-v-30000g-2007-12-31-0.1.zip
-