[sword-devel] BDB?

[DM Smith]

Chris,
    This is good to know. While it is a very old work, I think that if 
or when one proceeds with the effort, it should be necessary to work 
from something that clearly is not copyrighted (i.e. hard copy that is 
sufficiently early enough) or we get permission from the current 
copyright holder. As I understand the note in my hardcopy of BDB, there 
are corrections to the original and given the date, the corrections 
would be under copyright. Working from hard copy that is under copyright 
without permission because most of it is beyond copyright seems to me to 
put the burden on us to demonstrate that we did not violate the copyright.
    Are you also saying/implying that the OLB module was obtained from 
that which would not be under copyright? I imagine that we simply don't 
know. As I have looked into the origins of other modules, it does not 
seem clear what the origin was for most of them.
    I am then wondering why Naves is online. According to nave.doc that 
is part of the module, it taken from a particularly buggy etext and was 
fixed to be 99% correct. As I have obtained the original of the fixed 
etext and am working on converting it into OSIS, I am concerned that it 
will be unacceptable as it is from an etext which may not be the same as 
the original. Any advise? (Obviously from my other posts, I am adverse 
to copyright infringement and if I cannot be sure that I am working with 
PD, I will do something else.)
Thanks,
    DM

Chris Little wrote:

> We were told that the BDB & Thayer modules we had were derived from 
> OLB content and that they had added content beyond the plain 
> BDB/Thayer text. It's not an issue of the basic BDB/Thayer content 
> being under copyright. Those are very old and very public domain. It's 
> the additional material. And the reason we couldn't just remove the 
> content OLB added is that we are not able to discern what was added 
> and what was original to the document (other than that we do know all 
> of the TWOT/TDNT & word count info was added by OLB).
>
> If redoing the BDB & Thayer lexicons is a real desire, we could look 
> into redoing those from scratch, much like we did with the KJV, but it 
> may be better to get help from CCEL (or refer the whole project to 
> them for administration/maintenance).
>
> --Chris
>
>
> Slavo wrote:
>
>> What have happened to BDB module?
>>
>> Slavo
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