CoWatcher Third-Party Credits, Open Source Notices & Legal Attributions ⚖️
CoWatcher relies on and integrates with outstanding open-source libraries, linguistics toolkits, and public dictionary data sources. We gratefully acknowledge these upstream works in compliance with their respective open-source licenses.
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⚠️ Non-Endorsement & Attribution Disclaimer
- No Affiliation or Endorsement: All third-party trademarks, logos, brand names, public APIs, linguistics datasets, and open-source software cited in this document remain the intellectual property of their respective copyright and trademark holders. Their inclusion in CoWatcher is solely for technical interoperability, open-source license compliance (Attribution), and acknowledgment of upstream works. Their mention or inclusion does NOT constitute, imply, or suggest any official endorsement, sponsorship, approval, or affiliation of CoWatcher by any of these organizations, foundations, institutions, or authors.
- Independent Open-Source Software: CoWatcher is an independent open-source project. None of the listed dictionary providers, institutions, or linguistic organizations are responsible for CoWatcher's software uptime, translation accuracy, or community operations.
- License Adherence: All external libraries, APIs, and datasets are utilized strictly within the terms of their respective open-source licenses (MIT, Apache 2.0, CC BY-SA, CC BY-ND, EDRDG Licence) and fair public usage guidelines.
📖 Free Dictionary Data Sources & Public APIs
We gratefully acknowledge the following free and open-access dictionary datasets, public APIs, and lexical resources powering CoWatcher's vocabulary lookup and language immersion:
- Wiktionary REST API (Wikimedia Foundation)
- License: CC BY-SA 3.0 / CC BY-SA 4.0
- Multilingual lexical definitions, grammatical inflections, and bilingual translations across Spanish, French, German, and international languages.
- JMdict & Kanjidic2 / Jisho.org (Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group - EDRDG)
- License: EDRDG Licence
- Authentic Japanese dictionary entries, kanji breakdowns, readings, and English definitions.
- Free Dictionary API
- License: Open Community API
- Comprehensive English definitions, parts of speech, phonetics, audio pronunciations, and etymology.
- Zhuyin Phonetics Dataset
- License: CC BY-ND 3.0 TW
- MOE Mandarin Chinese Dictionary Public Licensing Network - Zhuyin Phonetics Open Dataset
- Youdao Dictionary & Naver Dictionary Web Endpoints
- Notice: Public Web APIs
- Multilingual dictionary lookup endpoints for Chinese, Korean, and Japanese bilingual learners.
⚙️ Open Source NLP, Linguistics & Phonetic Engines
CoWatcher relies on the following open-source projects for zero-dependency client-side word segmentation, lemmatization, and phonetic transliteration:
- kuroshiro & kuromoji.js
- License: MIT / Apache 2.0
- Japanese morphological analysis, word segmentation, and furigana/hiragana generation.
- pinyin-pro & pinyin-zhuyin
- License: MIT
- High-precision Chinese Hanzi to Pinyin and Bopomofo (Zhuyin) phonetic converter.
- romaja & koroman
- License: MIT
- Korean Hangul Revised Romanization and phonetic transliteration engine.
- wink-lemmatizer
- License: MIT
- Standard English morphological lemmatizer for nouns, verbs, and adjectives.