I've searched around and I haven't found any paper copy of a portuguese Bible named "Almeida Atualizada" yet... but I haven't completed my search. I'm yet to go at Bible museum in Barueri; besides, I've found references of a "Imperial Bible", offered to brazillian emperor D. Pedro II by Britannic Bible Society, with a Revision of Jo�o Ferreira de Almeida's translation - printed in Great-Britain, 1877. It seems we can check it out at Biblioteca Nacional do Rio de Janeiro - it was microfilmed ().
And, I remember reading somewhere that at XIX century the main protestant portuguese bible was the Almeida version the Britannic Bible Society provided us (at that time, the SBB didn't existed yet). check "http://www.sbb.org.br/museu/acervo_virtual.asp"; for more info, and the scans for each page (right now the scans are offline or not uploaded) However, I can't prove yet that the "Almeida Atualizada" bible the Unbound Bible provided to Sword is really that old one Britannic Bible Society had (with spells updated to current portuguese language), nor any other one. Have any one contacted Unbound Bible to hear from them where they got it? Which were the sources, or who provided the digitalized text? ...besides, I haven't got any responses yet of Portuguese Bible society (from Portugal) concerning the existance of any "Almeida Atualizada" version of the portuguese Bible... Concerning the distribution of the files, the PorAA module contents is provided by Unbound Bible, so they are the responsibles for any eventual copyright infringement, since they said it was OK to redistribute... Since Leandro's version (PorIBBVR?) is provided by Leandro himself, and itis copyrighted by IBB, Sword can't openly distribute it unless IBB says it's OK to do so... I'd say that PorAA must remain online at least untill Leandro get Sword a permission to distribute IBB's Bible. When he get this, PorAA could be taken offline if it's proved that it is really a corrupted version. But portuguese speaker users should not be without a portuguese bible module. That's my position. > 1. Re: Re: Re: Another typo fixed in PorAA (Chris > Little) Em Fri, 03 Jun 2005 16:56:16 -0700, Chris Little escreveu: > The problem is that you and Dario Matos have a disagreement on what > the PorAA we are hosting is and whether it is copyrighted, > corrupted, etc. I could write Dario privately and ask him if he maintains his position -- I do have a copy of the IBB's VR (Versão Revisada) and can confirm your PorAA is just a copy of it with orthography errors and missing text. Since Dario stopped answering the thread, I took his silence to be acquiescence. I could scan some pages of the IBB's VR and email you privately so that you could check for yourself, if needs be. > We know where we got the currently available PorAA module and we > know that its source says it is okay to distribute. I guess your source is the Unbounded Bible site? I have warned them already about the copy rights issue, they never answered. > That's why we are distributing that one. But you are claiming that > the one you are providing is copyrighted by IBB, so we are taking > your word on that, at least until we can confirm otherwise. I just took your PorAA and fixed typos and supplied missing text. If you can't distribute my version, you can't your current one -- as far as I can see. > Are you making any progress with IBB? Not yet. I was giving them some time to answer, they never did. Next I should really drop them a phone call, but now I'm starting a new job and moving, so that won't be possible at all. > Also, can you provide any kind of proof that the old PorAA module is > a corrupted version of the same version you have provided? Other than doing a diff? If I did a diff you'd take that as proof? I could even comment it if you like... -- Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra +55 (11) 5685 2219 __________________________________________________ Converse com seus amigos em tempo real com o Yahoo! Messenger http://br.download.yahoo.com/messenger/ _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
