Open Source Translation Dictionaries?

jools asks: "I have to work with lots of documents in German. I can speak it mostly, but an online dictionary would be invaluable. When I'm on the Internet I can use Babelfish, but during the day Internet is expensive in the UK. So the question is are there open source foreign language dictionaries around, or even commercial packages for Linux. "

just getting of the ground...

[cwinters]

The dictionary Laixicon (www.laixicon.com [laixicon.com]) is just getting off the ground. It's geared toward engineers and technical folks. Lots of potential and it's a little different by having the potential for definitions, even encyclopedic ones, for words and terms. Still very much in beta, particularly the layout.

I'm biased though, since I helped create it :)

Ding

[bgdarnel]

http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~fri/ding/

Ding is a dictionary lookup program that includes a German-English dictionary. The program is GPL; the web page doesn't mention a separate copyright for the dictionary data, so I assume it is also GPL.

LEO Dictionary

[Twinky]

The best English<->German Online Dictionary I know is at leo.org [leo.org]. I consider it open, because you can contribute to it and they promised to provide a download in future (when they finished the cleanup).

They also have a list of other online dictionaries [leo.org].