I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
Dictionaries as in definitions-of-words-dictionaries? Like Mirriam-Webster or Wiktionary?
Some clearly are already. Others, though -why should they be free now when they weren't before? That's asking their owners to give up their profitable business.
There's nothing stopping free, open dictionaries being made, and I can't think of a compelling reason to make new closed ones in this day and age.
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
If you're after a list of words, I'd be surprised there's not something bundled like /usr/share/dict in your OS if it's been installed in the correct language.
Oh nice point, thanks. I might check that out. Do you think that could be used in my project? Or would I be breaking some license? I will look that up just in case.
Dictionaries as in definitions-of-words-dictionaries? Like Mirriam-Webster or Wiktionary?
Some clearly are already. Others, though -why should they be free now when they weren't before? That's asking their owners to give up their profitable business.
There's nothing stopping free, open dictionaries being made, and I can't think of a compelling reason to make new closed ones in this day and age.
Yup, definition dictionaries.
Of course, I would not expect companies to make dictionaries for free, but the language and words should be.
Me neither, although I haven't been able to find a complete open/free dictionary with API.
PD: Maybe this is just a case with Spanish dictionaries or the laws in Spain or Europe, maybe it's not so much the case in the US or other countries.
If you're after a list of words, I'd be surprised there's not something bundled like
/usr/share/dict
in your OS if it's been installed in the correct language.Oh nice point, thanks. I might check that out. Do you think that could be used in my project? Or would I be breaking some license? I will look that up just in case.
I've found that es.wiktionary has a dump of all words, so that will help me a lot.
dumps.wikimedia.org/eswiktionary/l...
Nice, I might even look for
en.wiktionary
dumps some time later.Did not know about Wiktionary, they have on in Spanish which is really nice!
I was able to download the whole dump, which will be more than enough for my needs.