Re: [sword-devel] drm

2004-04-21 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Kahunapule Michael P. Johnson wrote: > Seriously, most people don't have a gpg key. Only a very small > minority of people care enough about authentication and/or privacy to > learn how to use PGP or Gnu Privacy Guard. These programs are not

Re: [sword-devel] drm

2004-04-20 Thread Chris Little
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Michael A. Peters wrote: > I'm sure this has been asked before, but are there any plans to add some > kind of a drm mechanism so that "locked" modules can be purchased? We've had the locking/unlocking mechanism implemented and available for something like 7 years. Work is in

Re: [sword-devel] drm

2004-04-20 Thread Kahunapule Michael P. Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 13:56 21-04-04, Michael A. Peters wrote: >On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 19:37, Kahunapule Michael P. Johnson wrote: >> OK, so I generate a new gpg key pair just for that purpose, get the >> license string, then post both for my hacker buddies? > >If your h

Re: [sword-devel] drm

2004-04-20 Thread Lynn Allan
> I ask because I have built Sword modules for NIV, NASB, NRSV, > and others, but have set them aside as I am unclear whether > I can use them, even for my personal use. I've wondered about something similar. Several years ago, I purchased BibleExplorer 2.0 "Deluxe", which came with the NIV, NLT,

Re: [sword-devel] drm

2004-04-20 Thread Mark Morley
"Michael A. Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Right now - the only way honest people can use such bible > texts in sword is if they create them themselves, and I > think this does hinder the widespread adoption of the project. Sorry to hijack this thread, but I am curious about the above. Is i

Re: [sword-devel] drm

2004-04-20 Thread Ryan V
-- > As the sword project currently is - unless I create > my own sword modules > (which I might do - it can't be *that* hard to write > a script that can > parse a chapter from biblegateway.org into a module) > the only way for me > to use these texts is to use a different project, > which pr

Re: [sword-devel] drm

2004-04-20 Thread Michael A. Peters
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 19:37, Kahunapule Michael P. Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > At 11:37 21-04-04, Michael A. Peters wrote: > >I'm sure this has been asked before, but are there any plans to add > >some > >kind of a drm mechanism so that "locked" modules ca

Re: [sword-devel] drm

2004-04-20 Thread Kahunapule Michael P. Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 11:37 21-04-04, Michael A. Peters wrote: >I'm sure this has been asked before, but are there any plans to add >some >kind of a drm mechanism so that "locked" modules can be purchased? I don't think Crosswire wants to do that, but maybe providing t

Re: [sword-devel] DRM entries in .conf files

2001-12-17 Thread Michael Rempel
- Original Message - From: "Chris Little" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 7:48 PM Subject: RE: [sword-devel] DRM entries in .conf files > > Understood. It would considerable effort and time to > > imp

RE: [sword-devel] DRM entries in .conf files

2001-12-16 Thread Chris Little
> Understood. It would considerable effort and time to > implement a DRM solution. It would be interesting to think > about and discuss though. Don't you think the likes of Thomas > Nelson would be more likely to grant access to there > translations if we could demonstrate there protection? I

RE: [sword-devel] DRM entries in .conf files

2001-12-16 Thread Mike Dougherty
On Sat, 2001-12-15 at 15:59, Chris Little wrote: > > > Wow, I haven't thought about DRM in quite some time. Kind of > > a blast from the past sort of thing Anyway, here are a > > few thoughts, questions, comments. > *snip* > > I think you've put too much thought into this before. :) Or el

Re: [sword-devel] DRM entries in .conf files

2001-12-16 Thread Mike Dougherty
On Sat, 2001-12-15 at 14:47, Chris wrote: > > > > > > > > > >* You are going to need a way to keep track of how many times the user > >has printed, read, or wrote a verse. > > > What is to stop someone backing up the files before using sword and > restoring them after each use? > Actually, we

Re: [sword-devel] DRM entries in .conf files

2001-12-15 Thread Mike Dougherty
On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 22:37, Chris Little wrote: > I'd like to propose the addition of some new entries for .conf files, > relating to copyright and digital rights management (DRM). They would > just be informational, and the front-end would have the option to enfore > them or not (just like Adob