[sword-devel] Gill, Keil & Delitzsch commentaries?

Geoffrey W Hastings geoffreyhastings at juno.com
Thu Apr 19 15:07:13 MST 2007


So can we expect to see a return of Gill to the SWORD :-)
 
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:34:48 -0700 Chris Little <chrislit at crosswire.org>
writes:
> Adding the OLBGRK and OLBHEB modules will not be considered now or 
> ever. 
> They aren't Thayer's or BDB. I would consider them to be basically 
> worthless since it's impossible to know what is genuinely from 
> BDB/Thayer and what is from OLB's contributors themselves. You can 
> read 
> the discussion from a few years ago if you really want to. But the 
> issue 
> of adding them to Sword now or in the future is really already 
> settled.
> 
> Unlike the claimed copyrights on Gill, K&D, and other works that 
> have 
> basically been scanned, OCRed, and proofed, I would consider OLB's 
> work 
> on OLBGRK and OLBHEB to be of a genuinely creative nature and 
> thereby 
> legitimately protected by copyright.
> 
> --Chris
> 
> Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
> >> e-Sword has also Thayer and BDB short definitions dictionaries. 
> They
> >> are not for deep study but at about the same level with Strong. 
> They
> >> would be great additions to Crosswire libraries.
> > 
> > http://www.cmug.org/articles/QuickVerse.html: "...you can also 
> choose
> > from Thayer's Greek definitions and Brown-Driver-Briggs' Hebrew
> > definitions. It should be noted that these are not the full text 
> of
> > Thayer's and BDB, but the condensed and edited reworking of them 
> done
> > for the Online Bible."
> > 
> > So the Online Bible seems to be the source.
> > 
> >   Yours,
> >         Eeli Kaikkonen (Mr.), Oulu, Finland
> >         e-mail: eekaikko at mailx.studentx.oulux.fix (with no x)
> > 
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