On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:35 AM, Chris Little <[email protected]> wrote:
> We've actually had specific discussions with you about our not wanting you > to redistribute our modules, specifically because of copyrighted content > such as this for which WE have permission. YOU are not CrossWire. Any > reasonable person would conclude that he did not have permission to > distribute unless his name were, by some coincidence, "CrossWire". > Chris, you're already making modules based upon the ISV publically available (are you not?). Once you made it clear you wanted me to 'take it down' and I did - where exactly is the problem here? > > I'm curious what your train of thought was that led you to conclude that > YOU should distribute a module that we were not distributing, when your > basis for distribution was a belief that WE had permission to distribute it. > I've already explained my train of thought on this. Crosswire freely distributes version 1.5 of a module based upon ISV. One of the developers asks about updating it to include the OT. Checking the distribution rights contained in the isv.conf file, I see that Crosswire is already permitted to distribute this copyrighted text so offer to help. You ask me to remove the module from my repo - which I do. Peter gets angry and tells me to leave. > > The .conf you had posted obviously was not for that version of the module, > given that the SourceType was wrong and all of the other details simply > reflected our released version: > http://www.crosswire.org/**ftpmirror/pub/sword/raw/mods.**d/isv.conf<http://www.crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/raw/mods.d/isv.conf> > Perhaps, but we didn't get very far into discussions about module development before people started to exhibit 'knee-jerk' reactions. The .conf file (like all) is subject to change depending upon the needs of the module. (FYI I simply modified that .conf file incrementing the version number so it wouldn't be mistaken for the version Crosswire is already sharing with the world - this is more than a reasonable small change to make). > The basis for the module you posted was outdated at the time it was > produced and had been removed from the publisher's website by then. The > OSIS document produced from this was furthermore not valid XML (unless it > has been updated in the last year). So conversion from a Word document is > still necessary. And unless the process for converting from that Word > document can be replicated (via scripts) the whole exercise of producing > that OSIS document was without value. > > --Chris > > This is the kind of dialogue that actually gets things done, improves modules and moves things forward. I have no trouble believing what you say above and still would volunteer to do the work ... ~A
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