Re: [sword-devel] daemon wanted, willing to pay reasonable fee

2007-12-31 Thread jonathon
Chris wrote: > No publisher has ever voiced any kind of concern on this basis. Concerns of that type are discussed privately--- not publicly. Publishers have yanked licenses because they think that too much piracy has occurred. They have also threatened to yank licenses, because they think that

Re: [sword-devel] daemon wanted, willing to pay reasonable fee

2007-12-31 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
Embellish to taste. But somebody just tell me why diatheke doesn't generate output when run from the socket -- works fine at the terminal. /etc/xinetd.d/sword: service sword { disable = no port= 2 socket_type = stream protocol= tcp wait

Re: [sword-devel] daemon wanted, willing to pay reasonable fee

2007-12-31 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Chris Little wrote: > This is a red herring. On the one hand, copyright violation is still > illegal, regardless of how difficult or easy it is to perform. Yes, but that have not stopped many websites or applications using texts which they do not have permission for. This is o

Re: [sword-devel] daemon wanted, willing to pay reasonable fee

2007-12-31 Thread Chris Little
Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: > It is true that people can do that with any GPL program legally if they > want to. GPL doesn't govern how you use software once it's compiled & in the user's hands. > We have never discussed about that but this might be a legitimate reason > for text publishers to not u

Re: [sword-devel] daemon wanted, willing to pay reasonable fee

2007-12-31 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Chris Little wrote: > Is your bible program project going to be GPL licensed? > > Please do correct me if I'm wrong, but this sounds a bit like an attempt > at an end run of the GPL: using a (GPL) daemon to provide a socket > interface to a non-GPL UI. We're really not very ke

Re: [sword-devel] daemon wanted, willing to pay reasonable fee

2007-12-31 Thread Chris Little
Is your bible program project going to be GPL licensed? Please do correct me if I'm wrong, but this sounds a bit like an attempt at an end run of the GPL: using a (GPL) daemon to provide a socket interface to a non-GPL UI. We're really not very keen on the commercial exploitation of our years o

[sword-devel] daemon wanted, willing to pay reasonable fee

2007-12-30 Thread Wade Maxfield
I want do do a bible program project, multi-platform, accessible from a gui development environment that is not currently compatible with sword (neither java nor C++). I would like a daemon that can run under windows, linux, and macintosh that sits at a socket and accepts request for scriptur