[sword-devel] Releasing application under sword GNU publiclicense

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Dear mmital,

It is not required that you distribute the source with your application; 
only that it is available if the users wish to obtain it.  You can 
conform to the license merely by placing a link on your website to the 
source.

Also, you are welcome to take a reasonable time, let's say 1 week, to 
decide if you would like to continue to use the SWORD engine and accept 
the license that goes along with it.

	-Troy.



mmital wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. I will read the GNU GPL in detail. In the meantime, 
> do I need to remove the eBible application from the internet?  (currently I 
> am distributing it as freeware but without the source code). Thanks for the 
> clarification,
> 
> mmital
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Troy A. Griffitts" <scribe at crosswire.org>
> To: "SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum" <sword-devel at crosswire.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 2:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Releasing application under sword GNU 
> publiclicense
> 
> 
>> Dear mmital,
>>
>> Thank you for your work!  The GNU GPL is a popular open source license,
>> so you may wish to read up on what it requires before you decide to
>> whether or not you can live with the licenses, but you basically have it
>> right: the source code must be made available, so that if your users
>> wish to improve the software, they may do so-- provided they also
>> release the source code of their improvement, ad. inf.  Basically, it's
>> just a way to let projects remain open and growing.
>>
>> I hope we can share together in work for our Lord.  Now that you've used
>> the engine, I'm sure you would love to have it improved in many ways! :)
>>
>> Serving together,
>>
>> -Troy.
>>
>>
>>
>> mmital wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am intersted in furthering the development of bible application that I
>>> orginally developed without using the sword API.
>>>
>>> After I discovered the sword project, I am using the sword engine API to
>>> drive the software.
>>>
>>> Although application is completely free of charge, I recently discovered
>>> that sword license requires that "the source code is made freely
>>> available for the software and any derivitive is also released under the
>>> GNU General Public License".
>>>
>>> Where can I upload the source code so that my application can comply
>>> with your license agreement?
>>>
>>> Are there any other copyright issues in distributing an application
>>> based on sword API? If so, I am willing to take the application offline
>>> and revert to the old non-sword system.
>>>
>>> The application is currently called eBible and located at
>>> www.swordwarrior.net <http://www.swordwarrior.net>. The name of the
>>> application will be changed soon since it conflicts with software by
>>> Thomas Nelson Ministry, and also conflicts with the software provided by
>>> http://www.lakessoftware.com/eBible.htm
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> mmital
>>>
>>>
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