On Jan 27, 2008, at 6:19 PM, Paul Gear wrote:
> Chris Little wrote:
>> ...
>> No one who has argued against changing the current licensing has
>> accused
>> commercial interests of being evil or has criticized the creation of
>> commercial software. The whole "commercial software is evil" meme
Chris Little wrote:
> ...
> No one who has argued against changing the current licensing has accused
> commercial interests of being evil or has criticized the creation of
> commercial software. The whole "commercial software is evil" meme came
> from the other camp,
> ...
> We're not going to e
jonathon wrote:
> Chris wrote:
>
>> people who assume GPL means PD, take our work, rename & repackage,
> ...
>> indeed rip them off in much worse ways).
>
> Most of what I've seen with commercially distributed Sword Project
> front ends have been outright GPL violations. As a Bible Society,
>
As someone who does not code, but is a translator only, can I say something:
I am delighted that this project is GPL. It allows me to do all those
things any "gratis but unfree" license so commonly used by others does
not.Often
As a church we can distribute Sword software and target specifically
Jonathan,
On Jan 27, 2008 4:19 PM, jonathon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes, all of that is true and fine - the GPL satisfies all of those
requirements. As do others, like the LGPL and similar licenses.
>
> Both the GPL and LGPL allow for commercial distribution. Or
> redistribution by those w
Chris wrote:
> people who assume GPL means PD, take our work, rename & repackage,
...
> indeed rip them off in much worse ways).
Most of what I've seen with commercially distributed Sword Project
front ends have been outright GPL violations. As a Bible Society,
lawsuits, or the threat of them ma
Greg wrote:
> The GPL thus enforces the fact that anyone else who builds software off of
> the backs of people who have contributed to the Sword project is required to
> provide that software free-of-charge.
I was going to stay out of this thread, until I read that comment.
Here is a slightly m
Jonathan Morgan wrote:
> However, I do not think
> that the objection apparent on this mailing list to even discuss
> rationally the licensing without essentially saying, "We want it this
> way to stop those evil commercial people from making any money from
> our hard work" supports this goal at
This thread has generated a lot of heated debate that I think is
incidental to the real purpose of the licensing and of the existence
of the Sword project and Crosswire in general (though of course I
cannot speak for Crosswire, and probably don't want to). I think that
the Sword developers really
On Jan 26, 2008 6:19 PM, Jason Galyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Titus 3:10-11
>
Eh? What exactly is your point here? Trying to warn yourself about
your own behavior?
I may not speak for the rest of the people on the list, but my feeling
about the GPL are as follows:
When I put time or ener
Titus 3:10-11
Chris Little wrote:
> [Forwarding message per request. Sorry, I can't advise how to fix the
> sending problem. --Chris]
>
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>> From: Moses McKnight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date: January 26, 2008 3:59:22 PM PST
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re:
[Forwarding message per request. Sorry, I can't advise how to fix the
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> Subject: Re: [sword-devel] GPL and other license related question
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