I met the guy behind the NET Bible several years ago. I was excited about the project because the main selling point was that it was going to be a solid translation that was FREELY distributed. I do not know what changed or why.
by grace alone, Don A. Elbourne Jr. http://elbourne.org > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris Little > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 5:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [sword-devel] NET Bible: why don't we have it? > > > > > > I don't believe that the net bible is gnu, or public domain. > > I believe there is a copywrite on it. > > > Yup. NET is not PD. It's not available for non-commercial > distribution. As far as licensing goes, it's at least as restrictive as > any other text I know of. There are I believe only two software > packages being allowed to license the text (Logos & OliveTree) and > you're not allowed to copy the text from their webpage to post on your > own webpage. > > > I recieved a e-mail message from someone asking about > > why we don't have the > > NET Bible as a module. It is distributed for free from > > www.netbible.org in > > html format. Is it just the fact that it would take too much time to > format > > the text from HTML? The guy that contacted me is willing to help out > in the > > efforts of preparing the NET Bible HTML for a SWORD module. > > So, like I said, the NET is not very (libre) free and is not easily > downloaded from netbible.org. That said, I have the text in a pair of > modules (a Bible for the text & a commentary for the notes) but don't > expect it to be posted publicly soon, if ever. > > --Chris >
