[sword-devel] Arabic Bible

Chris Little chrislit at crosswire.org
Thu Jul 10 15:20:09 MST 2008


Peter von Kaehne wrote:
>>> 2) The old version is public domain - this one is more restricted. A
>>> public domain version has significant advantages for third party
>>> distributers.
>> Which sorts of 3rd party distributers do you mean?
>>
>> I think 3rd parties who are taking our content on CD (for example) to 
>> distribute in Sword format shouldn't worry about the licensing. I think 
>> that's within the scope of what Arabic Bible Outreach Ministries is 
>> giving permission for.
> 
> Mirroring and customising of Sword software. Packaging of content so
> that only relevant stuff for a particular distribution target language
> is there.

If we change the text of the DistributionLicense from:

Copyrighted; Permission to distribute granted to CrossWire

to:

Copyrighted; Permission granted to distribute in Sword format

would that solve all of the issues?

--Chris



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