[sword-devel] Copyright and locked modules

[Martin Gruner]

It's here:

http://www.crosswire.org/ucgi-bin/twiki/view/Modules/CopyrightAndLockedModules

mg

Am Freitag, 9. Januar 2004 07:39 schrieb Troy A. Griffitts:
> 	Not to discourage anyone, just to restate the positions that have been
> stated many times before in private and public:
>
> 	CrossWire does not support ANY commercial (including 10% markup)
> selling of sword modules by any 3rd party.  There are a number of
> reasons for this, among only a few: a) it confuses the issue of who
> content creators need to deal with; b) what official relation this party
> has with CrossWire; c) clouds the image and purpose of CrossWire; and
> honestly d) it ticks me off that people want to make any money from the
> countless hours we've sacrificed over the years to bring this software
> to Bible Societies, other ministries, and our end users with no money
> involved.  This is the keynote of our ministry.
>
> 	If a publisher wishes to sell their own texts, we will support them as
> much as we can, just short of taking the money and delivering it to them.
>
> 	We would prefer to have copyright holders give their texts away for
> free, obviously, but feel they know their ministry better than us, and
> if they feel they need to charge, then that is between them and the Lord.
>
> 	CrossWire DOES support OSIS markup directly.  To say: we do our best
> and have every intention of supporting fully the OSIS specification and
> any OSIS encoded documents for use with our software.  As Chris has
> stated, it is technically by import into a normalized OSIS markup and
> compressed.
>
> 	I am convinced that if we had someone with the professionalism and time
> necessary to put into researching and contacting the proper individuals
> in the proper way, many copyright holders would be inclined to take your
> money, as they probably already have methods of electonic distribution
> and sales.
>
> 	And to conclude, this isn't an offical announcement, but Lockman has
> agree to sell the NASB for SWORD, as soon as we finish work on it, and
> they have been extremely surprised and grateful that we don't want
> royalties for 'ALLOWING them to distribute their text in our format'.  I
> think this example will be extremely conducive to convincing other
> organizations to do the same.
>
> 	-Troy A. Griffitts.
>
> PS.  Someone please link to this in the wiki FAQs
>
> Barry Drake wrote:
> > Hi David ...........
> >
> > On 8 Jan 2004 at 14:16, David's Mailing List and Spam Receiver wrote:
> >>Basically my idea would be to distribute keys or whatever for OSIS
> >> modules at near cost to me.
> >
> > I think I'm right in saying that Sword will never directly support OSIS
> > modules - am I right in this Chris?
> >
> >>Now my only question is this, would there be a problem with my
> >> contributing code to the project if I do this? I'd like to eventually
> >> contribute some good map and chart code to the project and am working on
> >> some basic ideas for that.
> >
> > Personally, I see no problem at all with any of your suggestions.  There
> > would be no conflict of interests, and anyone who wanted to purchase a
> > Sword module which is copyrighted would be passed on to you.  Really
> > though, Troy ought to give an opinion here.
> >
> > God bless,
> > Barry
> >
> > -- From Barry Drake (The Revd) minister of the Netherfield United
> > Reformed church, Nottingham see http://www.jesusinnetherfield.org.uk
> > for our church homepages).
> >
> > Replies - b.drake@ntlworld.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
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