[sword-devel] Re: Copyright and STRONGS

[David Burry]

I know people who might be able to help fund and/or provide OCR software, etc to something like this too... provided it is to stay in the public domain and not get snaked by someone's copyright (grin).

Dave


At 02:52 PM 7/6/2000 -1000, Brandon Staggs wrote:
>Isn't that a bummer. What is left to be done? How much work? I think it is
>likely I could find someone willing to complete the work.
>
>-Brandon
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jerry Hastings" <hastings@dancris.com>
>To: <sword-devel@crosswire.org>; <sword-devel@crosswire.org>
>Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 12:26 PM
>Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Re: Copyright and STRONGS
>
>
>> At 09:39 PM 7/5/2000 -1000, Brandon Staggs wrote:
>> >Whatever happened to the KJV with Strongs that was being worked on and
>the
>> >OT is complete found at http://www.bf.org/bfetexts.htm ? This looks like
>a
>> >solution for anyone who wants to avoid the hassles involved with using
>the
>> >(obviously) PD text from OLB. However without an NT it is not terribly
>> >useful. I could possibly arrange for some funding if some work needs to
>be
>> >completed on this project.
>> >
>> >-Brandon
>>
>> A year ago some guy was given the files to finish one at a time (because
>> the person with the files had some prep for each file and didn't want to
>> waste time if he stopped on the first one). As he finished one he was
>given
>> another. The agreement was that when all the files were done he would
>place
>> the finished work on BF as PD. After he got the last file we stopped
>> hearing from him.
>>
>> Jerry
>> hastings@bf.org