Re: [sword-devel] OSIS sources? [Was: Re: Project “Free Scriptures” started]

2014-02-25 Thread Matej Cepl
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 08:15:03AM +0100, Peter Von Kaehne wrote: In essence, if the module is of the kind as this one - ancient and clearly with problems, chances are that the module needs to be recreated from scratch anyway. Find a decent source and produce a replacement. This time with the

[sword-devel] OSIS sources? [Was: Re: Project “Free Scriptures” started]

2014-02-24 Thread Matěj Cepl
Although, the original message was IMHO completely trollish, there is one thing, where I would like to get a clarification. On Sun, 2014-02-23 at 22:21 -0800, Chris Little wrote: We're not an OSIS document repository. Making XML documents available for that content that we could share is not

Re: [sword-devel] OSIS sources? [Was: Re: Project “Free Scriptures” started]

2014-02-24 Thread Matěj Cepl
On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 17:38 +0100, Matěj Cepl wrote: removed (I am going to resend here the message I sent to David couple of weeks ago for which I have never received a reply). I would like to Actually, it has been sent here as well …

Re: [sword-devel] OSIS sources? [Was: Re: Project “Free Scriptures” started]

2014-02-24 Thread Kahunapule Michael Johnson
Title: signature I understand the desire to have a repository for Scripture source files that are freely redistributable (i.e. public domain, Creative Commons, or similar). I operate the beginnings of one at https://Bible.cx/Scriptures/, and welcome additions. I

Re: [sword-devel] OSIS sources? [Was: Re: Project “Free Scriptures” started]

2014-02-24 Thread Peter von Kaehne
On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 17:38 +0100, Matěj Cepl wrote: Although, the original message was IMHO completely trollish, there is one thing, where I would like to get a clarification. On Sun, 2014-02-23 at 22:21 -0800, Chris Little wrote: We're not an OSIS document repository. Making XML documents

Re: [sword-devel] OSIS sources? [Was: Re: Project “Free Scriptures” started]

2014-02-24 Thread Matěj Cepl
On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 20:16 +, Peter von Kaehne wrote: I think the basic decision to not publish OSIS for texts we do not maintain is sound. I have disagreed with it in the past, but once I realised the Chinese whisper like deterioration of texts by project copying from project copying

Re: [sword-devel] OSIS sources? [Was: Re: Project “Free Scriptures” started]

2014-02-24 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
To confirm what others have said: CrossWire has historically held the position that we are not the keepers of any authoritative source documents. There are a number of reasons for this, many have been stated already in this thread: we are primarily a software development project, other

Re: [sword-devel] OSIS sources? [Was: Re: Project “Free Scriptures” started]

2014-02-24 Thread Matěj Cepl
On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 16:49 -0700, Troy A. Griffitts wrote: We DO MAINTAIN a link to the source where we obtained the material; anyone wishing to use the data from one of our SWORD modules SHOULD INSTEAD simply look at the source link in the module .conf file and use that source instead.

Re: [sword-devel] OSIS sources? [Was: Re: Project “Free Scriptures” started]

2014-02-24 Thread Peter Von Kaehne
Von: Matěj Cepl mc...@redhat.com On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 16:49 -0700, Troy A. Griffitts wrote: We DO MAINTAIN a link to the source where we obtained the material; anyone wishing to use the data from one of our SWORD modules SHOULD INSTEAD simply look at the source link in the module