[sword-devel] Finding out copyright programatically

[Andrew Thule]

I think this is a fanstastic idea, the idea of progamatically being able to
detect Status of a module programatically!  Very good suggestion.

On this example:

"Say, a Xiphos user gets a module distributed by CrossWire, such as the
ESV. Does the Xiphos user then need to seek permission to use the module
through Xiphos from Crossway? Presumably not? Or do the Xiphos owners need
to seek permission from Crossway? Possibly?"

This is also a good example.

Crossway as the Copyright Owner has granted CrossWire license to distribute
the text as a Sword modules, so the terms of this license (permission) that
govern how this works should be covered in a license agreemnt (that defines
things like 'Distribute', the scope of what CrossWire means (develoepers or
certain individuals) etc.

So 'license to use' the ESV module has been set by the copyright owner, but
CrossWire should be able to clarify what that means programatically as the
licensee but also display the terms of the license (publicy) since
(presumably) it has already been worked out with Crossway and both parties
understand what it means.

~A




On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 5:59 PM, DM Smith <dmsmith at crosswire.org> wrote:

> Yes. o.c.j.book.BookMetaData is the proper place for this. There are many
> of ways you can do it. There are several patterns in the class already.
> I'll leave the choice up to you.
>
> As Peter mentioned there are (at least) two questions that need to be
> answered:
> Redistributable? Are there modules that cannot be distributed at all.
> Commercial? Are there modules that preclude the use in a commercial
> context. (E.g. Ad driven).
>
> Note, when STEP is a desktop application or a web application, these might
> have different meanings.
>
> Here are details of how to dig it out today:
>
> o.c.j.book.sword.ConfigEntryType.DISTRIBUTION_LICENSE
> defines the list of acceptable values.
>
> You can access this via o.c.j.book.BookMetadata.getProperty as in:
>
>
> o.c.j.b.BookMetadata.getProperty(o.c.j.b.sword.ConfigEntryType.DISTRIBUTION_LICENSE.getName())
>
> You can then compare it to expected values as in "Copyrighted; Permission
> to distribute granted to CrossWire"
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> In Him,
>         DM
>
> On Jan 6, 2013, at 12:05 PM, Chris Burrell <chris at burrell.me.uk> wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > Can I suggest adding something in the module configuration and/or
> sword/jsword backends that could indicate what kind of copyright we're
> dealing with: PUBLIC_DOMAIN, COPYRIGHT, OTHER, etc.
> >
> > I personally would find that useful if I want to make available public
> domain resources in some fashion to others, and thereby not include some of
> the copyrighted material.
> >
> > For example, if I'm going to allow people to include hooks into STEP to
> obtain and display the Scriptures on their websites, I'd want to make sure
> I can sift through the texts that I make available and the ones that I
> don't (see my separate thread about CMSses)
> >
> > I guess this could be as trivial as looking for "Public domain" or
> "Copyright" in the field in the configuration, but in the numerous emails
> from the last few days, someone said something along the lines that we were
> trying to be consistent but aren't always.
> >
> > If, we think, this is consistent enough, I'd be happy to implement a
> simple getter on the BookMetadata object in JSword.
> >
> > If we don't think this is valuable and the .conf files aren't
> consistent, I'll simply maintain an "opt-in" list for those resources that
> are public domain + those I've obtained permissions from
> > Chris
> >
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