[sword-devel] How to get vowels in the Arabic bible module?

[peter]

Irrespective of this labour of love etc, I do doubt that vowel signs can
be copyrighted.

I would think if the Van Dyke is public domain so this is , unless there
are more profound revisions done. In fact all printed editions I have
ever seen, have the vocalisation present, so this is not copyrightable IMHO.

Just because you put your mind to getting something from paper to
electrons does not create a copyright.

Peter

John H. wrote:
> This goes into more depth about it...
> 
> http://www.arabicbible.com/bible/vandyke.htm
> 
> Specifically...
> 
> "These Arabic MS Word Documents of the Arabic Bible Vandyke
> Translation are available for your personnel use.  Any of the
> followings:
> 
>    1.
> 
>       Posting them on the internet
>    2.
> 
>       Selling them
>    3.
> 
>       Altering them
> 
> without the exclusive permission from the Webmaster of the Arabic
> Bible Outreach Ministry (webmaster at info@arabicbible.com) is strictly
> prohibited.
> 
> The Copy Rights are Exclusive for the Arabic Bible Outreach Ministry .
>  They are posted on the Internet for readers to download for personnel
> use.
> 
> This labor of love was performed by a young man from Egypt by the name
> of Usama K. He poured 4 years of his life into this monumental work.
> 
> We thank the Lord for raising men who dedicated their lives to publish
> the Arabic Bible free for the Arab world. All praise is for our Lord
> and redeemer Jesus Christ.
> 
>      Abd El-Massih,
> 
>      Webmaster"
> 
> 
> http://www.arabicbible.com/bible/use.htm
> 
> On Jan 21, 2008 2:08 AM, Chris Little <chrislit at crosswire.org> wrote:
>> On Jan 20, 2008, at 11:09 PM, John H. wrote:
>>> I was wondering how to get the vowels to display in the ASV module?
>> A new module would need to be created.
>>
>>> A word document with all the vowels is available here...
>>>
>>> http://www.arabicbible.com/bible/doc_bible.htm
>>> In the ASV version.
>> To use that text, we would need permission from the website and then
>> someone would have to extract the text from the Word documents into a
>> usable Unicode text (which doesn't look too difficult) and make an
>> OSIS document out of it.
>>
>> --Chris
>>
>>
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