JH wrote:
The circumvention refered to by Jonathon and myself ...
That should have said "Jack and myself".
Jerry
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Jonathon Blake wrote:
Jack wrote:
Fortunately, I don't see circumvention in this case.
a) Zondervan, amongst other publishers does consider BIble Import
Tool to be a tool designed to circumvent their IP rights.
The circumvention refered to by Jonathon and myself
Jack Lewis wrote:
Fortunately, I don't see circumvention in this case. I see creating
comptability with other formats.
I have not looked closely at this specific case. My comment should be
taken as a general caution and may, or may not apply in this case.
Jerry
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Leandro wrote:
> > The e-Sword license prohibits reverse engineering.
> Is such a prohibition legal anywhere in the world?
Yes.
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Em Thu, 05 May 2005 23:47:13 +, Jonathon Blake escreveu:
> The e-Sword license prohibits reverse engineering.
Is such a prohibition legal anywhere in the world?
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Jack wrote:
> Fortunately, I don't see circumvention in this case.
a) Zondervan, amongst other publishers does consider BIble Import
Tool to be a tool designed to circumvent their IP rights.
b) Since the e-Sword modules are password protected, it is trivial to
demonstrate that converting them
JH wrote:
Jack Lewis wrote:
Disclaimer: IANAL.
Same here.
Reverse engeering for compatability is legal in the United States and
Europe. Examples include Samba, WINE, Accolade vs. Sega, Linux (from
UNIX), Kaffe (from Java). Here is some info:
As I understand it, (I have not looked into this
Jack Lewis wrote:
Disclaimer: IANAL.
Same here.
Reverse engeering for compatability is legal in the United States and
Europe. Examples include Samba, WINE, Accolade vs. Sega, Linux (from
UNIX), Kaffe (from Java). Here is some info:
As I understand it, (I have not looked into this in a while
>b) The HTML2Sword Module code is distributed under the GNU
>GPL.
>
>c) The e-Sword license prohibits reverse engineering. I wouldn't be
>surprised if Rick considered an e-Sword2Sword Project tool to be
>reverse engineering, and a violation of the e-Sword license.
>
>All of which is a roundabout w
