I am currently trying to build up a dictionary. I stumbled upon CC-CEDICT, which Skritter also uses. CC-CEDICT is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.

As the title of the license states it's "share alike". From what I can see, the dictionary data modified by Skritter and it's users is NOT shared. Is there some point I am missing (that's why I posted this here in public, maybe someone here is a lawyer or something) or is it really a violation against this license?

Thanks for any hints.

CC-CEDICT doesn't want the modifications we make to its entries because we mostly remove definitions (better for learning a word, but worse for reference). Most of Skritter's words weren't initially sourced from CC-CEDICT, but we do have a bunch that came in through the MDBG Skritter button and other CC-CEDICT add-to-Skritter sources.

If you want, I can send you a list of all of our entries which originally came from CC-CEDICT with Skritter's updated definitions. You might do better to just use CC-CEDICT for that, though, if you're making a dictionary.

Hope this makes sense.

I see, so that's how things are. Well, CC-CEDICT isn't my favorite choice either (also because of their entry style, which makes it harder to contribute), but it still seems to be the largest dictionary to be used for free.

Actually I don't want to build a new dictionary, but I need one. I already sent you an e-mail what I'm planning to do. However, I don't think I can make big use of the modified entries at the moment, so sending them to me isn't necessary. Thanks.