dict.cc is a free, multilingual online dictionary. For offline use the dictionaries can be downloaded as text files and used in various programs on Windows, iOS, Android and Palm OS. Dict.cc GmbH have their main office in the Austrian capital city of Vienna. The website was put on the internet in the year 2002 by Austrian Paul Hemetsberger. His vision is to provide hundreds of languages within a few years. At the beginning of February 2005 Paul Hemetsberger allowed vocabulary lists to be downloaded under the conditions of the free GNU General Public License (GPL). Later in the year he changed to a propriety license, which provides less freedom to the users. Despite this he released all user-generated posts, which were created under the former GPL-Licensed project, into the lists. More information...
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