Chris Little wrote:
That sounds well and reasonable.On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Jimmie Houchin wrote:I'm not sure how we will go about releasing Sword modules as OSIS documents, but I suspect a lot of our stuff will get released. Things that won't get released as OSIS docs would include most copyrighted texts. The very beginnings of our repository are at http://www.bibletechnologieswg.org/osis/docs/ currently but I imagine someone else will run a better site for this sort of thing.I do fully desire to be able to use OSIS documents. To me Sword project is the most open Bible software availalbe. This is why I chose this project. Texts wise, what would I miss out on by going an OSIS route? Would there be documents unavailable, but available via Sword? Would the Sword Modules (not libs) offer features not available via OSIS?
There's nothing that the modules themselves will provide that OSIS doesn't, aside from compression and some indexing. The libraries themselves offer features like toggling display of certain items and transliteration, but these are easy to reproduce/unnecessary.
I really don't care about copyrighted texts to which the owners won't give permission for usage. As long as the value of the program doesn't suffer due to lack of available texts, except those due to copyright issues, I'll be happy.
UI features like toggling display, etc... I can handle.
Hopefully these texts will have reasonable distribution/redistribution terms. It would be nice to be able to create a CD and potentially a website.
Thanks again.
Jimmie Houchin
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