'Proprietor 'is the owner. Latin.
So the format is owned, irrespective of whether it is published (even under GPL). Th econnection betwen closed source and proprietary is not a given, though it is often used - falsely as synonymous. Peter DM Smith wrote: > On Nov 4, 2007, at 1:15 PM, jonathon wrote: > >> All: >> >> I just looked at the wiki page >> http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/index.php/File_Formats >> >> And under IMP it says: "This proprietary file format is used by Sword >> for import of all types of modules." >> Since the API is distributed under the GNU GPL, how can that file >> format be proprietary? > > I think the term is used correctly. > > It is non-standard. It was developed by the SWORD project and as such > is the intellectual property of CrossWire and under it's control. At > any time, the SWORD project may at it's discretion, change the > format. (Though I doubt it will ever happen.) > > I don't think proprietary means secret and that it does not mean not > published nor made Free (GPL) or free (cost). > > Also, the inputs to the module creation utilities are well published, > but it is deliberate that the formats of the modules are not > published. The internals of the modules is not part of the API. > People are free to reverse engineer them, but it is far easier to use > the SWORD API to access the modules. > > Just my 2 cents. > > Working together for His Kingdom, > DM > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
