> > The reasons are deep and political. Those who need to know them, already > know them.
I appreciate your discretion in your answer. Conversion difficulties was what I was primarily concerned with, so this is, in a sense, good news. The text is under Copyright by Lockman. Distributing the work would not be > legally permitted without obtaining their permission. Thank you. I have permission. It's important for our own resources to know whence the upstream work was > found. I see. That being the case, there's no reason I wouldn't be able to convert a PD work from Zefania XML for example, or any other format I find it in, correct? Thank you for your ongoing support and information. It is indeed very helpful. Blessings, Matt On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Greg Hellings <greg.helli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Matt Zabojnik <matt...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks for the info! >> >> Would you mind explaining in different terms your reason for aborting the >> project? I didn't fully understand. Delivering to Lockman wasn't going to >> work for some reason? >> > The reasons are deep and political. Those who need to know them, already > know them. > > >> I haven't yet started working on this module, but the intent will be mass >> distribution rather than personal use only. >> > The text is under Copyright by Lockman. Distributing the work would not be > legally permitted without obtaining their permission. > >> Is it common for people to convert stuff for personal use? And how >> important is it to declare where I obtained a source text for public domain >> materials? I didn't see coverage on either of those in the wiki. >> > It's important for our own resources to know whence the upstream work was > found. This allows repeatable module generation should the upstream source > ever be updated and corrected. Very often problems are uncovered in > upstream works during the module creation process and this typically > continues once the module is in users' hands. The NASB, however, is not a > public domain work. > > --Greg > >> >> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017, 12:15 PM Greg Hellings <greg.helli...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Eons ago, Crosswire received permission from Lockman to begin work on an >> NSAB module that they could commercially deliver to users who paid for it. >> >> Many people have tackled the work of performing the conversions from >> Lockman's internal, proprietary markup to a Sword module. Each one has, for >> various reasons, abandoned the work. Most recently it was me, and I gave up >> due to a lack of a consistent or realistic objective for delivery of the >> results to Lockman. >> >> You can, essentially, assume that nothing more will ever come of it from >> the official channel. You'd be best to pursue converting another digital >> source for your own personal use. >> >> --Greg >> >> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 1:06 PM, Matt Zabojnik <matt...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> What's the status on the NASB module? I saw it mentioned in the >> dictionary message. This is the first I've heard of it, being new to sword >> devel. >> >> I'm currently working to convert NASB with strongs, footnotes and >> references, but I need to learn OSIS and RegEx better first. >> >> Who here is the point-man on tyre work that's already been done there? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org >> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org >> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org >> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >> > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > -- ------------------------------------------ PGP ID: 0x5fa5cbaecfd5690c ------------------------------------------
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