L10n:Dictionaries
If we ever want to improve our situation with dictionaries, it would be good to know:
- How many different dictionary formats there are
- Which ones different major projects use
- What dictionaries exist in each
- Who knows about their copyright status
Afrikaans
Afrikaans dictionaries are built for MySpell and aspell by translate.org.za. Releases available at SourceForge. They are released under LGPL. --Friedelwolff 07:57, 9 Feb 2006 (PST)
Catalan
Catalan dictionaries are available in MySpell and Aspell formats under a GPL License at http://www.jmoratinos.com Toniher
Czech
The only open Czech dictionary I know is [Ispell] that was coverted by OOo guys to [MySpell]. Both dictionaries are under GPL/LGPL. However the original Ispell is kind of abandoned and its author doesn't communicate at all. Therefore, our efforts with relicencing failed. --User:Pawell
Hebrew
OpenOffice.org has a localized version in hebrew, that uses the Hspell format, which is similar to MySpell. they converted it to MySpell for use with mozilla, and it's available here. the MySpell format is GPL, and i think Hspell too. Tsahi
Irish
The free Irish dictionary is available in aspell/ispell/myspell formats, licensed under the GPL. See http://borel.slu.edu/ispell/ --Kscanne
Russian
There are three Russian Myspell dictionaries in Openoffice (all of them were converted from ispell format) - two of them are licensed under some proprietary license and one is licensed under Mozilla trilicense (it was under GPL earlier and was relicensed by [Altlinux]. --Unghost
Zulu
Provisional Zulu dictionaries are built for MySpell and aspell by translate.org.za. Releases available at SourceForge. They are released under LGPL. --Friedelwolff 07:57, 9 Feb 2006 (PST)