Richard, Thank you for your response. I did not take offense or was upset at your post, but rather felt that this should be a forum of ideas for the project and that statements (whether true or false) about people or organizations should be brought up directly with those individuals. This is such an open forum, where people can subscribe and unsubscribe without anyone really noticing, that I do not think that we would want to be the potential root of a rumor mill.
I agree that there is a lot that all three, as well as other projects, could collaborate. Think the biggest collaboration would and even should be on the licensing of the various translations and other modules. Just like with the translations (and as a programmer myself I know), there are certain versions that work better for others, and so there is various ways to program to get to the same objective. That being said the one thing that is the same across the board (or at least should be) is the need and way to get the appropriate licensing. In addition, as Chris noted in another post that many get e-sword and the SWORD Project confused. This could be where getting licensing in a cooperative fashion could be useful. With so many "Big" (and expensive) Bible applications out there, the only way to get some of the more popular translations is to cooperate. Just some thoughts. Lester Nichols I can only apologise. I honestly did not mean to suggest that anything improper was going on. I could not find any license references in my downloaded program, and I had assumed that they were necessary. (The OnlineBible distributes a license.doc file with its modules) I have no real idea how copyright licenses apply, so (as I demonstrated in a previous post) its much more likely that I have simply got the wrong end of the stick. In response to the question 'Have you asked?' Yes, I have emailed both OnlineBible and E-Sword, and what I quoted from previously was the end of my correspondance with OnlineBible. I don't know who to believe in the matter. It seems a shame that the three (Sword Project, E-Sword, Online Bible) can't get some standard to their applying for copyright licenses. There must be a lot of duplication of effort going on, in code as well. It feels like being at my church board meeting :) At any rate, I apologise if I caused anyone any upset and/or offence. Hats off to you guys though for being much more responsive :) R _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message to anyone. If you have received it in error please advise the sender immediately by return email and then delete it and all copies from your system. Community Bank reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is authorized to state them to be the views of any such entity. No contracts may be concluded on behalf of the sender by means of electronic communications unless expressly stated to the contrary. _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel
