-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peter von Kaehne wrote:
>"GPL v2 or later" is good as it allows widest use. >Both got very excited when they saw the freedom the GPL offered them - it was news to them that such a licence even existed a) There are a slew of similar licences. The downside of GPL style licences is that there is no revenue stream from distribution of the software. (For GPL 3.0 in particular, the revenue stream is from providing support services.) b) Point them to other programs that use GPL style licences. (OOo, for example, is available for more minority languages than MSO is. The same thing applies to Linux in comparison to Windows.) c) Work with those publishers to show how they can use FLOSS to help their customers.(Here is a Bible study program. Here is an office suite. Here are tools that will copy material from the Bible Study program into the office suit, so you can print out your sermon notes.) >E-sword for example can only be distributed from esword's website - making it useless if you have net censorship difficulties. You can redistribute e-Sword provided: * You do not do so within a commercial context; * You do not distribute it over the internet; IOW, you are free to distribute it via CD to third parties. (This is how it is distributed in a dozen countries in the 10-40 belt.) I'll also point out that you can negotiate with Rick Meyers on redistribution of e-Sword within a commercial context. (This is why Sovereign Press KJV Bibles used to include e-Sword.) > of making the FFS copyright holders - not sure whether this is something Stallman would be happy about (given that he is AFAIk atheist) but they seem to have a track record of bring GPL abusers to the book. I suspect that Stallman would be more than happy about suing licence violators of a Bible Study Program. (I can see him quoting Exodus 20:15 and Deuteronomy 5:18 during the proceedings.) xan jonathon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGw0D32o2GPyX/pG0RAmSlAJ0VjFsySKWJBnZETvC6W16iOQcuiwCeKsmL qsEBNXPO5ngdg9uczqrPGjc= =wKgf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
