[sword-devel] Lamsa Bible

[SonWon]

Thanks Peter.

What is the process to obtain permission to add to the Sword library?  Are
there any forms to fill out by the copyright holder?

John


On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Peter von Kaehne <refdoc at gmx.net> wrote:

> Copyright law and our attitude to it. We tend obey it. Others don't.
>
> Also, interest. You are the first who asked for it. If it is important to
> you you can now of course explore how you could obtain permissions. And
> then hou could submit a module.
>
> So if a text is in copyright and no one was interested in it enough to ask
> and then make a module, we wont have it.
>
> Peter
>
> Sent from my phone. Apologies for brevity and typos.On 1 Oct 2015 4:25 pm,
> SonWon <sonwon.1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > ​Thank you for the links.  I now see several sources for downloading and
> reading online.  This begs the question, why isn't this available in Sword?​
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 4:01 PM, David Haslam <dfhmch at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I just found this information about the copyright.
> >> "Scripture quotations marked Lamsa are from the Holy Bible From Ancient
> >> Eastern Manuscripts,
> >> George M. Lamsa, Copyright © 1933, 1939, 1940, 1957 A. J. Holman
> Company."
> >> See http://www.topical-bible-studies.org/other.htm
> >>
> >> This page may be of interest to SonWon:
> >>
> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lamsa
> >>
> >> The external links include one labelled "Lamsa Bible Download".
> >> The linked website page includes a Zip download for the Lamsa NT in HTML
> >> format,
> >> one html page per chapter.
> >>
> >> Also of interest:
> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamsa_Bible
> >>
> >> NB. Both Wikipedia pages describe scholarly critiques of Lamsa's views.
> >>
> >> David
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >>
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