webmagnets Posted December 25, 2014 at 02:44 PM Report Posted December 25, 2014 at 02:44 PM Whereas cc-cedict is a public domain Chinese-English dictionary, I am looking for a Chinese-Chinese downloadable dictionary to include in an app I am building. Does anyone have any ideas? UPDATE: I am interested in how I can license non-free versions also. Quote
skylee Posted December 25, 2014 at 03:11 PM Report Posted December 25, 2014 at 03:11 PM Like this one? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.audreyt.dict.moe Quote
webmagnets Posted December 25, 2014 at 03:17 PM Author Report Posted December 25, 2014 at 03:17 PM Thanks for responding, but I don't think so. I am looking for a big text file like cc-cedict or possibly a database that I can download and use in my own apps. Quote
mikelove Posted December 25, 2014 at 06:15 PM Report Posted December 25, 2014 at 06:15 PM Also, technically that one is under a non-commercial license, so including it in a for-profit app would be legally problematic. (this is why the only way to get it in Pleco is via a user dictionary that we had no part in making) Quote
webmagnets Posted December 25, 2014 at 06:22 PM Author Report Posted December 25, 2014 at 06:22 PM Thanks for the heads up on that. Quote
webmagnets Posted December 25, 2014 at 06:27 PM Author Report Posted December 25, 2014 at 06:27 PM I just looked at this page: http://cc-cedict.org/wiki/ and clicked the link that took me to Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. That page says that it can be used commercially. @mikelove Am I misunderstanding something? Quote
mikelove Posted December 25, 2014 at 06:36 PM Report Posted December 25, 2014 at 06:36 PM Sorry, by "that one" I meant the MoE dictionary skylee mentioned, not CC-CEDICT. Creative Commons licenses come in a lot of different varieties - Attribution, Share Alike, and Non-Commercial are three of the 'flavors' that can be chosen for a CC license. The MoE chose to use a Non-Commercial CC license for their release of that Chinese-Chinese dictionary, but the CC-CEDICT editors did not choose to use one for CC-CEDICT. Quote
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