On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Christian Renz wrote: > >The question is whether we, as a Christian ministry, should be > >distributing copies of the Quran or the Book of Mormon or such. > > Oh sorry -- that's a misunderstanding and a whole different can of > worms... :-) I was referring to modules we consider orthodox, but not > in a "perfect" state of conversion. I've been guilty myself of not > releasing something for a long time because I always thought "I'm > going to finish this up soon...". My message was just meant as a > reminder to not fall in to this trap. > > Release Early And Release Often. :-)
Yeah, I agree. We will probably release those sorts of modules even if they aren't proofed. Who am I kidding by implying we proofread? :) Josephus is the only module we currently have that I think fits this category. Most ThML-converted texts require a lot of clean up before we could release them. > As for non-"orthodox" or openly non-christian books -- I believe these > belong under the carpet. They can always be referred to when somebody > explicitly asks for them. Although I do think that the modules alone > are not so valuable a tool for Muslims/Mormons that they would really > use Sword as a tool to spread their faith. The further problem is that these groups might notice Sword and start producing more material for themselves, making Sword into a really useful tool for them. Our only real way of preventing this, legally, would be to dump GPL and write our own license to specify things such as: distribution of Sword binaries must be accompanied by at least one Bible. --Chris