[sword-devel] Some questions re: a locked module

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On Wednesday 26 November 2003 10:36 pm, Chris Little wrote:
> To make a long story short: We had locked Gill's Expositor to make Larry
> Pierce happy.  He is somehow responsible for the module's digitization and
> claims copyright (either because he's lying or because he's completely
> ignorant of copyright law).  Back when we locked it, Larry was giving us
> permission to distribute his KJV with Strong's.  Unfortunately, Larry's
> program, the Online Bible, hasn't advanced into the 21st century (meaning
> it's ugly and has a poor user interface--not to say that BibleCS's is any
> better), so naturally Larry blamed us for the fact that fewer and fewer
> people want to use his software.  As a result, he reneged on his
> permission and began spreading lies about us.  I don't see much reason to
> make Larry Pierce happy anymore, so I'll unlock the Gill Expositor
> shortly.  It will take a little while, though, since it needs some
> significant cleanup.

Where are the OLB copyrights registered? Perhaps Mr. Pierce believes he has 
these rights because the country these copyrights are held in actually has 
laws that allow such copyrights?

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