[sword-devel] Translation of the bible texts

[Greg Hellings]

Rafael,

Certainly, if you can find a Bible that is without copyright or falls
under some sort of copyleft that would allow free distribution,
Crosswire would be capable of distributing it and would probably not
be adverse to the idea.  Troy would be the final say on that.  Cheers!

--Greg

On 11/7/06, Rafael Vieira <rafastv at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, but if I find another bible in portuguese and free of copyright, or
> under copyleft can I publish in your database? ;)
>
> 2006/11/7, DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com>:
>
> > This module was removed because it was found to be under current
> > copyright and we were not able to obtain permission from the
> > copyright owner. What prompted the investigation, IIRC, was that it
> > had errors that needed to be fixed. Further, upon comparison with a
> > print copy of what it was thought to be, it was determined that it
> > was not Almeida Atualizada.
> >
> > All this is recorded in the sword-devel archives, as well as the
> > start of an effort to scan a work that has been made available.
> >
> > On Nov 7, 2006, at 5:51 AM, Karl Kleinpaste wrote:
> >
> > > "Rafael Vieira" <rafastv at gmail.com> writes:
> > >> Hello there, I am a brazilian, and I've notice there's no bible in
> > >> Portuguese
> > >
> > > Oddly, there *was* a Portuguese text; I have it, and its .conf is:
> > >
> > > [PorAA]
> > > DataPath=./modules/texts/ztext/poraa/
> > > ModDrv=zText
> > > CompressType=ZIP
> > > BlockType=BOOK
> > > Encoding=UTF-8
> > > Version=1.0
> > > Lang=pt
> > > MinimumVersion=1.5.2
> > > Description=Portuguese Joao Ferreira de Almeida Atualizada
> > > About=Portuguese Joao Ferreira de Almeida Atualizada\par courtesy
> > > Unbound Bible ( http://unbound.biola.edu/)
> > > TextSource=http://unbound.biola.edu/
> > > LCSH=Bible. Portuguese.
> > > DistributionLicense=Public Domain
> > >
> > > If it was public domain, why is it no longer available?
> > > (It's still at Biola.)
> > >
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