====== Other (Mostly) Freely Available Dictionary Databases ======

Here are pointers to other sources of freely available dictionary databases.  **Note that the license terms of these databases may restrict modification, redistribution, and use.  It is your responsibility to read the license and interpret it.**

=====Morris Fried's GPL'd Swahili Dictionary=====

[[ftp://ftp.dict.org/pub/dict/contrib/swahili.tar.gz | Morris Fried's GPL'd Swahili Dictionary]]

Skliarouk Peter passed on a copy of Morris Fried's Swahili dictionary database and software.  It's all GPL'd, so it is suitable for conversion into a DICT database. This has already been done by Beata Wójtowicz, who compiled version 0.02 of the Freedict xFried Swahili-English dictionary on the basis of Morris Fried's work, and then reversed it into an English-Swahili dictionary.

===== The Spiers English-French Dictionary=====

[[http://www.june29.com/IDP/spiers/ | The Spiers English-French Dictionary]]

Volunteer to help type and proofread a public domain version of the 1853 Spiers' //Dictionnaire Gèneral Anglais-Français//.

===== Dictionary of Technical Terms for Aerospace Use=====

[[http://sulu.lerc.nasa.gov/dictionary/intro.html | Dictionary of Technical Terms for Aerospace Use]]

This dictionary is based on based on NASA SP-7 (1965).  As a US Government publication, it appears to be in the public domain.

===== Tico Ethnobotanical Dictionary =====

[[http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/dictionary/tico/ | Tico Ethnobotanical Dictionary]]

This dictionary is copyrighted and is **not** freely distributable, so it is not currently suitable for use with DICT servers.  However, in July 1999, I contacted the author, and he said he'd consider different licensing terms in the future.  A [[http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/dictionary/tico/tico.html | raw flat file]] is also available.

===== The CED Prolog Factbase =====

[[ftp://sable.ox.ac.uk/pub/ota/public/dicts/1192/ | The CED Prolog Factbase ]]

The copyright status of this database is listed differently in different files on the Oxford Text Archive site (some mark it as ``public domain'' and others as only available for ``scholarly use in private research'').  More recent information indicates that the database is restricted and should only be used for private research.

(The database is a set or Prolog facts that represent a Collins English Dictionary from the 1970s.  It is possible to write a Perl script that will reformat all of the data into entries suitable for use with DICT.  I don't have such a Perl script, so don't ask me for it.)

=====Who Was Who 5000 B.C. to Date=====

[[http://tom.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/book/lookup?num=984 | Who Was Who 5000 B.C. to Date]]

This is Project Gutenberg Release #984 (July 1997) and is available from many places on the net.  It contains Irwin L. Gordon's //WHO WAS WHO 5000 B. C. to Date: Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be//, a biographical dictionary from about 1914.

===== English-Czech=====

[[http://slovnik.zcu.cz/files/slovnik_data.txt | English-Czech]]

See other databases [[http://slovnik.zcu.cz/files/ | here]].