[sword-devel] *THREAD CLOSED* (was: CrossWire mirroring)

2013-01-11 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Andrew, Again, we've been over this too many times to continue to flood this list. I will explain it one last time to you, also closing this thread. From ground zero, assume you have zero permission to distribute a work which is copyrighted. CrossWire has asked and received permission from a

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire mirroring

2013-01-11 Thread Chris Little
On 1/11/2013 4:08 PM, Andrew Thule wrote: Nic, no I didn't miss the point. You are claiming this privelge is exclusive. If so, the terms of this agreement must be both registered and public. Anyone can claim anything they want about what they are able to do, and what others are not able to do,

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire mirroring

2013-01-11 Thread Nic Carter
- There is no "exclusive" agreement. (You can access the ESV from BibleGateway, for example.) - If we are challenged by a copyright holder about our rights to distribute their content, we then take that up with them. (This happened with the ESV a few years ago, when the new guy in charge of tha

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire mirroring

2013-01-11 Thread Andrew Thule
Nic, no I didn't miss the point. You are claiming this privelge is exclusive. If so, the terms of this agreement must be both registered and public. Anyone can claim anything they want about what they are able to do, and what others are not able to do, but these claims are only true if the terms

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire mirroring

2013-01-11 Thread Andrew Thule
Oh and to be clear I'm happy (and morally obligated) to honour the law. If I see evidence Crosswire holds exclusive license to control the distribution of some modules, I will honour that license. However, if no such legal restrictions apply, I am bound by a greater commission and intend to distr

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire mirroring

2013-01-11 Thread Nic Carter
Hi Andrew, You completely miss the point! CrossWire has the right to distribute certain modules. In order to satisfy our legal agreement with the copyright holders we can can only distribute from "CrossWire". We do not own the copyright, we have to abide by the same rules as anyone else. We ar

[sword-devel] CrossWire mirroring

2013-01-11 Thread Andrew Thule
Ultimately, the issue is about licensing rights on modules, which appears to be a very touchy subject around here. I suspect this is so because without actual licenses, which are essentially legal agreements (I'm not talking about .conf files which are not legal agreements), its pretty much imposs

Re: [sword-devel] Complete Osis Commentary Example

2013-01-11 Thread Pola Edward
Thanks for the reply, Attached the images using your markup, no effect in 3 programs You can see screenshots here http://depositfiles.com/files/36011rgm3 I'm thinking in making the commentaries in intermediate markup format, so Data entry group can start ASAP, and I'll convert it later to any f