Re: [sword-devel] Copyrights and cash

2002-06-21 Thread Barry Drake
Hi there ... On 21 Jun 2002 at 8:29, Don A. Elbourne Jr. wrote: > As for module creation, are the tools you are referring to addvs and addld? > I read the documentation and while I do not mind working with command line > utilities I am still a little apprehensive to dive into trying to create

Re: [sword-devel] Copyrights and cash

2002-06-21 Thread Don A. Elbourne Jr.
PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 11:43 PM Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Copyrights and cash > Thanks for all the comments. A few of my own... > > We have module making docs available and DESIRE others to make modules > We have command line utilitie

Re: [sword-devel] Copyrights and cash

2002-06-18 Thread Jan Paul Schmidt
Am Die, 2002-06-18 um 22.10 schrieb Daniel Freedman: > Secondly, I was thinking that instead of making it free I was thinking of > disabling copy and paste features on locked modules. I think it might be a > good proposal of providing a free translation while restricting copying. > > Copyright

Re: [sword-devel] Copyrights and cash

2002-06-18 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Thanks for all the comments. A few of my own... We have module making docs available and DESIRE others to make modules We have command line utilities available and DESIRE others to make modules. Chris would really LOVE for others to make modules. Enough said about that. Legit issue: Although

Re: [sword-devel] Copyrights and cash

2002-06-18 Thread Daniel Blake
Good Preaching brother Elbourne. I agree whole heartedly with needing "SwordWriter". It would be easy to implement a category system that denoted home brewed modules and published works excepted by the general Christian population. Daniel Blake > I have given a lot of thought to this iss

Re: [sword-devel] Copyrights and cash

2002-06-18 Thread Don A. Elbourne Jr.
I have given a lot of thought to this issue as well. I agree, a bible software can only be as good as its modules. In the past, I have advocated a more open content creation environment. If content creation tools were in the hands of content creators and not just programmers, I believe we would se

Re: [sword-devel] Copyrights and cash

2002-06-18 Thread Daniel Freedman
I think the whole point of sword that its free btw, all the bibles that are currently under copyright are going to be made redundant in the next 5 years anyway, because a new critical edition of the Hebrew Scriptures is being made. Secondly, I was thinking that instead of making it free I was thi

Re: [sword-devel] Copyrights and cash

2002-06-18 Thread David Burry
I'm all for someone forming a separate for-profit company (or joining with an existing one) that sells copyrighted royalty-laden sword modules... of course the base of sword would still be for free and so would all the freely distributable modules, only the copyrighted modules that must have ro