So I am confused how would David's idea clash with your vision? Are the two mutually exclusive? In Christ, David Trotz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Troy A. Griffitts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 9:36 AM Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Here's Our Chance: Copyright Negotations
> David, > While there is nothing from preventing you from doing this under the > terms of the GPL. I personally have goals for the project that would > lean against it. > > I would like CrossWire to form partnerships with copyright holders and > Bible Societies that allow them to use our software in their ministry. > > With the recent release of the OSIS specification, my hope is for SWORD > to become the premier OSIS Bible reader, freely available for these > organizations to recommend or distribute themselves. > > With the sponsorship of the Amercan Bible Society, and Society for > Biblical Literature, I'm sure there will be a huge library of OSIS > encoded texts soon available, sold either by these organizations, > themselves, or in bundle packs from other software distributors. > > We currently have export tools that allow most of our library to be > exported as an OSIS text. > > ABS has already asked us if we would be willing to encode their CEV > text in OSIS for them. > > I hope this gives a little more insight into my hopes regarding this > issue. Thank you for your willingness to help. > > -Troy. > > > PS. An update with regard to the Afrikaans Bible Society: They already > have the facilities to accept orders online, themselves, and have no > problems working within our current policy. In fact, I just received an > Afrikaans locale file today! > > > > David's Mailing List and Spam Reciever wrote: > > On Tuesday 24 September 2002 06:23 pm, Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > > > >>Our position with copyrighted texts: > >> > >>We will help publishers and copyright holders with their text for sword. > >> We will even distribute their text for them for free, or as locked > >>modules. We will not handle their money for them. If they will not > >>allow us to distributed freely under any terms, then we will encipher > >>and provide them with the module and key, and even publish the > >>enciphered module for download from our site, but this is as far as > >>CrossWire will go, in regard to selling modules. > > > > > > What if there was an independant ministry that handled the money if the > > publisher/copyright holder can't/won't? I have an internet ministry currently > > in limbo that I could use for such a purpose I guess. > > > > >