[sword-devel] Sword LICENSE

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Re: Dual Ownership

Yes, CrossWire as always had the policy of requiring ownership be also 
granted to CrossWire for any contributions which get added to our 
repository.  This has been discussed many times and should be posted 
conspicuously in multiple locations on our website (I hope it is 
still).  It doesn't mean the original author loses their ownership, but 
they must grant ownership rights also to CrossWire.  The reason has 
indeed been that Bible societies, translation organizations, and other 
ministries have at times asked to use our engine within a work which is 
not GPL and we consider their request and almost always grant 
permission.  I personally am not religious about the GPL.  My personal 
goal is to write free software to aid ministries to serve their people 
groups.  If they feel their ministry is served best by asking for 
donations or selling part of their work to fund future work, I may not 
always agree with them, but that is their choice.  I don't feel it's my 
place to dictate to them how their ministry should be run, at the risk 
that I won't aid their ministry.  If anyone would have submitted code or 
a patch which included a copyright notice by other than CrossWire Bible 
Society or by any other license than the GPL, it would not have been 
accepted.  The reason I didn't choose an MIT style license is to better 
encourage commercial vendors to contribute back to our code, if they 
ever find parts of it useful.  That hasn't worked so well :(  I hope no 
one feels they have been cheated.  We have always openly maintained this 
policy and the copyright notice is universal throughout our code base.  
I also hope we all feel the same about still aiding ministries where it 
would be difficult for them to change their product licenses to GPL.

Troy



On 02/04/2014 11:45 PM, Jaak Ristioja wrote:
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> On 05.02.2014 02:14, Daniel Hughes wrote:
>> This might be a little off topic but does the line... "The SWORD
>> Project is (c) 1994-2006 The CrossWire Bible Society"
>>
>> Mean that sword requires copyright assignment to CrossWire for all
>> contributions? If so is this because CrossWire also licences SWORD
>> under commercial terms or wants to be able to have the option to do
>> so in the future?
> I think they could once the copyrights expire, or if they explicitly
> ask each committer for the right to do so. I think they are required
> to expect what everyone who has contributed to the Sword library
> project released their work under the GPL. I don't remember anyone
> asking me to sign over my work to CrossWire.
>
> Blessings,
> Jaak
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