[sword-devel] Piracy ........

[DM Smith]

This looks just like the old thinkall scam. They have two Bible 
packages, biblecs and bibledesktop. Neither give any indication that's 
what they are. The biblecs page gives as a review a quote from a review 
of GnomeSword.

I think we are in for a bumpy ride.

Daniel Glassey wrote:
> On 19/03/2008, Barry Drake <bdrake at crosswire.org> wrote:
>   
>> Hi there .......
>>
>>  I've just responded to a Sword Support message about an outfit called CD
>>  Earth wanting to charge $15 for Sword Software.  The site referred to is
>>  at: http://www.cdearth.com/bible-software.htm
>>     
>
> Hmm, indeed looks dodgy. Just remember we can't complain about them
> charging money for it as long as they are distributiing it under the
> terms of the GPL with sources. We can ask nicely for attribution and
> stuff though but not demand it.
>
> However, I can't tell if they have made any effort to make sure that
> they aren't selling modules that are 'distribute from crosswire only'.
> That would be a bigger problem.
>
>   
>>  Do we have a standard e-mail to send out to folk like this?  The contact
>>  e-mail is given as: info at cdearth.com
>>     
>
> No idea, hopefully Chris or someone else will pop up :) (and I'm sure
> someone will disagree with me about people selling GPLd software but
> the GPL does allow you to do that).
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
>
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