Eicke Godehardt wrote:
I don't want to circumvent rights. That's why I'm not for sword
modules of copyrighted texts in any form. But to provide a tool to
build a module myself for my use only should be ok, as/when private
usage is alowed.
It is relatively trivial to create an input file to one of the Sword
module creation routines. The difficult part is getting the text into
one of the input forms. This is because output format of different
systems is, well, different.
I'm even willing to pay for copyrighted sword modules, but there is no
one available.
Not yet at least :-)
I am waiting too!
Do you think this is a wrong, dubios or questionable? I'm realy not
shure about that.
I'm not sure either. The problem I have is in providing a tool that
would be only valid for "personal" or "private" use and making that
publicly available. I am a bit leery about being held responsible for
how someone else behaves.
I would not have a problem in writing such a tool for myself that I can
use on a file that I have legally obtained and that I am allowed by the
license to that file to modify as I see fit. (I have some Palm bibles
that I have purchased that in the license agreement I am not allowed to
use other than with the provided software.) But I won't make that
software generally available. By the way, I don't have such a tool.
Shalom,
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DM Smith wrote:
I work on BibleDesktop/JSword so that people can have free, high
quality software to use God's Word fully. I strongly support the
rights of individuals and corporations to their intellectual property
and copyrights. I am unwilling to provide people the tools to
circumvent these rights. I will "avoid the appearance of evil".
JSword plans to provide the ability to work with OSIS bibles
directly. At this time I have not found any OSIS bibles that we can
use. It is kind of hard to develop it with out a good example, so
this has not gone anywhere other than on the wish list.
Greg Hellings wrote:
Technologically it should not be an overly difficult way, but I
would be wary of the way that this could be viewed by the copyright
holder and by the respective authorities. Seeing as how I'm neither
a lawyer nor an expert on "intellectual propery" laws, I don't know,
but if someone does have an authoritative opinion on that, it would
be an interesting idea. I have thought of a similar technology in
the past, but never was willing to put myself at risk for using it
until I had a definite legal opinion on the matter.
--Greg
On 8/23/05, *Eicke Godehardt* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
I have a similar "Problem" with german bible translations. But
most
translations are free for browsing and private usage. So there
is no
legal way to provide sword packages. But why not provide scripts,
which
allow every user to build up his own package?
Just downloading, some magic sed/awk to transform it to OSIS-XML
and
import it into sword?
Is this a possible way? What do you think?
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