Open Source Dictionaries

[doctormo-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Martin Owens)]

You can't have an "open source" version of a dictionary database. What I
think you mean is Free Culture (creative commons, public domain anything
like that)

You could just script a download of wiktionary.

You could have a FOSS dictionary software that reads a database though.
So which is it? A FOSS program able to read any dictionary even a
privatly licensed one, or a free culture dictionary?

Martin,

On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 14:27 -0400, Chris O'Connell wrote:
> To clarify, this is more an open source question than a Linux question
> as the target system is Windows 7.  Also, Martin is right, something
> that resides locally is what we are looking for. 
>