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+CC-CEDICT is a community-maintained free Chinese-English dictionary. It
+is a continuation of the CEDICT project started by Paul Denisowski in
+1997 with the aim to provide a complete downloadable Chinese to English
+dictionary with pronunciation in pinyin for the Chinese characters.
+
+CC-CEDICT is licensed under a Creative Commons license CC-BY-SA.
+
+Published by MDBG
+
+License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
+
+Referenced works: CEDICT - Copyright © 1997, 1998 Paul Andrew Denisowski
+
+CC-CEDICT can be downloaded from:
+http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=cc-cedict
+
+Additions and corrections to the CC-CEDICT source can be sent through:
+http://cc-cedict.org/editor/editor.php
+
+For more information about CC-CEDICT see:
+http://cc-cedict.org/wiki/
+
+This package converts the community maintained text file containing the
+CC-CEDICT dictionary into 5 dictionaries in the DICT Interchange format,
+which can be served to client programs such as 'dico' and 'dicod' by
+servers implementing the DICT protocol (RFC 2229), such as 'dictd' or
+'dicod'.
+
+The exporter script that this package uses to create the dictionaries is
+licensed under the GPL, the output dictionaries are licensed under
+CC-BY-SA version 3.0.