Re: [sword-devel] Copyright Law

2002-02-20 Thread Jerry Hastings
At 11:19 AM 2/20/2002 -0600, Don A. Elbourne Jr. wrote: >I am also a little blurry on copyrights pertaining to translations that were >done by a committee, since the life of the author seems to play into the >length of the copyright. Does anyone know how this applies? > >Don A. Elbourne Jr. >http:

RE: [sword-devel] Copyright Law

2002-02-20 Thread Chris Little
> I am also a little blurry on copyrights pertaining to > translations that were done by a committee, since the life of > the author seems to play into the length of the copyright. > Does anyone know how this applies? Corporate works have 95 years of copyright protection (up from 75 years).

Re: [sword-devel] Copyright Law

2002-02-20 Thread Don A. Elbourne Jr.
I am also a little blurry on copyrights pertaining to translations that were done by a committee, since the life of the author seems to play into the length of the copyright. Does anyone know how this applies? Don A. Elbourne Jr. http://elbourne.org - Original Message - From: "Jerry Has

Re: [sword-devel] Copyright Law

2002-02-20 Thread Jerry Hastings
>I have been following this for several years. I am sure there are many >commentaries and religious works that would fall into this window if Eldred >wins the case, but are their any Bible translations that would be affected >either now or in the near future? I believe there are. Off the top of

RE: [sword-devel] Copyright Law

2002-02-20 Thread Jorge Chacón
Would the "Reina Valera rev 1960" in Spanish fall into this category? I think their copyright would then end in 2010, and it IS the most read bible version is Spanish. Maybe the shortening of their copyright period would prod them into letting the Sword Project use it earlier. What about the Ol

Re: [sword-devel] Copyright Law

2002-02-20 Thread Don A. Elbourne Jr.
I have been following this for several years. I am sure there are many commentaries and religious works that would fall into this window if Eldred wins the case, but are their any Bible translations that would be affected either now or in the near future? Don A. Elbourne Jr. http://elbourne.org

Re: [sword-devel] 1.5.3 + optimizations

2002-02-20 Thread David White
isalpha et. al. are entities found in C (they are usually implemented as macros, not functions in C I believe). However, Sword is written in C++, and isalpha et. al. are C++ functions; them happening to exist in C is of little relevance, except for historical reasons, or to ease the learning of C+

Re: [sword-devel] 1.5.3 + optimizations

2002-02-20 Thread Brook Humphrey
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 15:48, you wrote: > Hello all, > We're finishing up 1.5.3, currently. My standing todo list consists of > Joachim's locale bug and zLD debugging. Then I will start an > optimization pass. Seems we really need this as our .4 second, complete > bible search is