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

[peter]

John H. wrote:
> Peter,
> 
> All printed copies I have seen, I have noticed the vowels as well.
> 
> I just pointed to this one because it was easily accessible and
> already had the vowels.  I was just wondering how to get a sword
> module with the vowels, however possible:)

I think then the assertion of copyright in the website is simply not
sustainable and we can take the work. It might not be the most friendly
act, but it would be well within the law.

Personally I found the best approach to negotiations of this kind is to
take the text + run, create the module and then present it back - "see
what we can do with your module. We want to acknowledge you, obviously.
What do you think?"

peter

> 
> On Jan 21, 2008 2:43 AM, peter <refdoc at gmx.net> wrote:
>> 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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