Yeah, Ok I understand that the bible societies want to receive a fair and just wage for the work that I do. And I understand that the bible societies have committments to other projects. But what further committment (from them) does it take?
In fact, the way I see it, is that by allowing purchase of keys for locked modules they have everything to gain and nothing to lose and all this without any greater committment from them. I tend to think the copying issue of text is meaningless seeing that people can easily copy whole programs of software without any distribution safeguards whatsoever. That is someone could buy the New American Standard, say, from a lochman foundation authorised software reseller with bible program for reading their translation and then make copies for all their friends without there being any checks at all. In fact the only way around this, for them, would be to adopt some kind of product activation key system like Microsoft Office XP, where you have to ring a toll free number or connect to the internet to register it. In summary I am saying that copying bible texts from non-sword sources is much more likely than from us. Perhaps the best way is to come up with products so that are so much better than the competition that we can no longer be ignored. Though I would expect that this is most likely being achieved in many cases anyway. A question I have regarding sapphire encryption. Is the whole file encrypted like zipping a file with a password? Or is the text encrypted inside the module? (I mean leaving the module structure un-encrypted). If the text is encrypted inside the module does this lead to two different sets of api's? One for unlocked modules and one for locked? Glenn. On Tuesday 10 September 2002 07:58 am, you wrote: > >Well, first, there are no plans to license as anything other than GPL. > >Second, there has never been any suggestion that we go to any license that > >is not open-source except by those who see this as a way of convincing > >copyright holders that Sword is secure. > > I've wondered (since I'm a Windows programmer ) if it would be effecient to > tokenize a biblical text and put it into a DLL along with methods for > retreiving text and locking the module. The DLL code could be proprietary > thus assuring copyright holder secruity and Sword could remain GPL. ??? > > Chuck
