[bt-devel] ANNOUNCEMENT: WYCLIFFE MODULES

[Greg Hellings]

Troy,

When I was working with Wycliffe on some of this there was also a
large corpus of work in the extra-Biblical field that they were
working with.  Are those also part of the agreement, or does it cover
strictly Wycliffe's scriptural translations?

--Greg

On 3/10/07, Troy A. Griffitts <scribe at crosswire.org> wrote:
> With great joy, I would like to officially announce that CrossWire and
> Wycliffe have entered into an agreement which allows us to distribute,
> royalty free, Wycliffe Bible translations, anywhere in the world, for an
> initial 5 year trial period.
>
> This is huge answer to prayer.
>
> A number of years ago, when we first started working with Wycliffe,
> we had talks about publishing their Scripture translations.  They
> proceeded to tell us of the internal struggles between those who wished
> to release their work for free, and others who held that the
> organization needed to continue to charge royalties for their work to
> allow them to continue work into the future.
>
> About a year ago Wycliffe started a project to use our software to
> publish their Bibles online, themselves.
>
> This contract allows CrossWire to distribute all of their Bibles freely
> in all of our software!
>
> The papers came officially signed in the mail today.  We are hoping to
> have data files start coming in over the next couple weeks.  We could
> really use help in many new areas as we start to bring these great
> resources online.
>
> Please join with me in excitement and in lifting up all praise to our
> God!!!  It is a beautiful thing to see the Body of Christ work together
> to proclaim His Great News to a needing world!
>
>         -Troy A. Griffitts
>
>
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