[sword-devel] Other Bible Texts

[peter]

André Isidio de Melo wrote:
> What about trying to get the permission to distribute this version also?

I think a number of people have tried to get the copyrights for
Crosswire and this has not been successful so far. Now I can not tell
you how hard they tried or how and whom they approached so I can not
advise you on what to do, but I suggest you go into the archives and
read up what has been done by whom. The Portuguese Bible is a sad story
AFAIK.

Peter



> Yours,
> André
> 
> 
> Sergio QUEIROZ wrote:
>> Hi André,
>>
>> Concerning the effort of digitizing a public domain text, the project is
>> at Distributed Proofreaders (DP). Everybody can help, once you have
>> created an account with DP, you can already start proofreading a text in
>> proofreading phase 1 (at this moment Luke's Gospel is at this stage).
>> For the details, see http://www.pgdp.net/wiki/Portuguese/Biblia_1911 .
>>
>>
>> Yours,
>>
>>
>> Sergio
>>
>>
>> Le mardi 29 janvier 2008 à 07:02 -0500, DM Smith a écrit :
>>   
>>> On Jan 27, 2008, at 1:56 PM, André Isidio de Melo wrote:
>>>
>>>     
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to contribute to the project adding other Bible Texts, mainly
>>>> in Portuguese and in French.
>>>> I'd like to know how to do it.
>>>>       
>>> There are two parts to this: technical and permission.
>>> 1) Technical: Obtain or create an electronic eText. Convert it to  
>>> OSIS. Run it through osis2mod to create a module. For details on how  
>>> to create an OSIS text see:
>>> http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/index.php/DevTools:Modules
>>> and
>>> http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/index.php/OSIS_Bibles
>>>
>>> 2) Permission: Many of the texts are under current copyright. If so,  
>>> permission will need to be obtained by the copyright owner. For it to  
>>> be hosted on CrossWire, this permission needs to be granted to  
>>> CrossWire in writing/email by the copyright owner.
>>>
>>> Regarding Portuguese, there is an effort that is currently underway to  
>>> obtain permission and also to scan a public domain text.
>>>
>>>     
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> André Isidio de Melo
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I hope that this project can help us to accomplish the mission Jesus
>>>> gave us:
>>>> "Go and make disciples of all nations, ....,
>>>> and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.
>>>> And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age"
>>>>       
>>> We hope so too!
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