On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Greg Hellings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Matt Reimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Greg Hellings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Manfred, >>> >>> Where would the source for it be? I remember you were working on >>> pulling out just an Obj-C wrapper for the SWORD library which we had >>> talked about as being possibly useful for working on the iPhone. How >>> mature is that wrapper at this point, and how can I locate and >>> download it? I'm once again trying to forge a path to see if GPLv2 >>> apps are possible on the device (I know v3 is not workable because of >>> the application signing that Apple requires). Since getting mine, >>> I've been very disappointed that all of the Bible programs are either >>> for-pay or have questionable quality of their modules (the only free >>> Bible app for the iPhone is put out by the people over at youversion - >>> and it requires you to have a good data connection and the quality of >>> their modules is very poor so far). >>> >>> --Greg >> >> Greg, >> >> My plan for a first draft of a usable, offline Bible program for the >> iPhone is to use my host to dump the texts pre-rendered as HTML into >> sqlite db files, which would save me having to learn how to make an >> Obj-C wrapper, and will probably be significantly faster. We can go >> ahead and get the UI working, and later go back and use SWORD as the >> backend. Also, that wouldn't require having to work out license issues >> first. > > That doesn't really avoid the licensing issues. If you're using the > SWORD library for it, then you've got to abide by the SWORD engine's > licensing, and you also have issues with the licensing of many of the > modules if you plan to dump them like that. If Manfred's Obj-C > wrapper for the SWORD library is functional, there's no reason that we > can't drop it straight into an application... unless the Apple > developer agreement is still to be interpreted as disallowing > open-source software.
Thanks Greg, that's helpful. Matt _______________________________________________ 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
