Re: [sword-devel] Copyrighting The Bible?

2001-08-27 Thread Jerry Hastings
At 01:04 AM 8/28/2001 +0200, Kees Bergwerf wrote: >...That is also my problem. The Dutch translation (SVV) has always been a >free >translation but now I see on the crosswire site that it is locked :-(... I don't know the history and source of that module on CrossWire, but, if the source before

Re: [sword-devel] Copyrighting The Bible?

2001-08-27 Thread Mike Sangrey
Regarding copyrighting of some texts: Does anyone know if anyone is considering the Document Public License (I think that's what it's called)? -- Mike Sangrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Landisburg, Pa. "The first one last wins." "A net of highly cohesive details revea

Re: [sword-devel] Copyrighting The Bible?

2001-08-27 Thread Mike Sangrey
John Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > A more important question, in my mind, is: how many *new* > english translations do we need? It does make one wonder if there > isn't an attempt to water down the message or to some how make the > language so clear, that somehow we don't need to be

Re: [sword-devel] Copyrighting The Bible?

2001-08-27 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Just to be sure everyone understands... CrossWire does not copyright any Bible texts. We would love to give all of our modules away for free. The locked modules are such because we are under the impression that someone is claiming copyright on them and thus we are not legally able to distribute

Re: [sword-devel] Copyrighting The Bible?

2001-08-27 Thread Kees Bergwerf
Hi Nathan, Op maandag 27 augustus 2001 02:02, schreef u: > Is that their right? To change slightly, for example, the KJV, call it the > MKJV, and copyright it? Who wrote it anyway? Did they, or did God? That is also my problem. The Dutch translation (SVV) has always been a free translation bu

RE: [sword-devel] Copyrighting The Bible?

2001-08-27 Thread John Gardner
Dear Nathan, I think the scriptural principle of not muzzling the ox would have bearing here. In this digital age it is quite easy for people to copy something that is being sold and get it for free. The word of God is ours but those who labor in translation can, I believe, legi

RE: [sword-devel] ModDisp improvements

2001-08-27 Thread Chris Little
> The About Info is missing for some commentaries (Barnes, > Clarke & Wesley) The descriptions just needed to be ended in newlines for the parser to pick them up, so this is now fixed. I also noticed that rieger.conf and the beta isbe.conf are causing an exception in the servlet, so I'll ha

RE: [sword-devel] ModDisp improvements

2001-08-27 Thread Stephen Denne
> I also added a ModInfo JSP that will show some info about each > module like version, minimum Sword version, the About info, > installed size, and download size (if the file exists already). Many thanks. The About Info is missing for some commentaries (Barnes, Clarke & Wesley) Stephen.