On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 2:41 PM, John H. wrote: >, instead of trying to ascertain whether I had a license to the software,
If you had a legitimate license for the text, you would not be scraping it from the web. I don't know how to phrase it any simpler than that. The fact that you have a license for a text in one electronic format does not mean that you have a license to convert that text to a different format. > You're also saying that having a legal electronic license of a translation of > the bible, for use in esword, otherwise, means that I am breaking the law if > I copy and paste a verse from esword to wordpad on the same computer. Technically, that is a copyright infringement. > What he did, and what you are doing in defense of him, was and is wrong. Are you willing to pay all legal costs for the CrossWire Development Team if they are subject to either civil or criminal prosecution for things that are a direct result of your actions? xan jonathon _______________________________________________ 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
