[sword-devel] Often-requested yet never-available Bibles

[David Haslam]

Jolon Faichney (the author the Go Bible program for mobile phones) approached
Zondervan in 2007, to request their permission for the NIV.

On May 10th, 2007, he reported having got a reply to the effect that 
"the NIV costs US$10,000 to license and then US$10 per copy. There is also a
rather detailed approval process."

Source = Go Bible Forum
http:// http://jolon.org/vanillaforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7 

Is it conceivable that Rick Meyers payed IBS (now  http://www.biblica.com/
Biblica ) a similar license fee for distributing the e-Sword NIV?
If so, he must have done the maths for the business model based on the
charge per copy for users to download.

Being a non-income "organization", CrossWire is just not in this league.

-- David Haslam

Karl Kleinpaste-2 wrote:
> 
> Ryan <adyeths at gmail.com> writes:
>> Earlier this year I contacted IBS and they told me "Our policy at this
>> time does not allow us to release the NIV database to individuals or for
>> use in Linux based, open source or shareware software products;
>> therefore IBS-STL will not be granting your request for use of the NIV."
> 
> Gee, it must be nice to know that they would actually recognize your
> corporeal existence.
> 
> The prejudice as to computer environments is nauseating.  I'd say from
> that text that they probably suffer from the delusion of Linux as "a
> hacker's system" and that "open source" equates in their minds to
> "unable to secure the text," yet they've had NIV/NIrV/TNIV available for
> eSword for years which, until 60 days ago, had the crappiest excuse for
> anti-security the computer world has ever seen.
> 
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