[sword-devel] File sharing website

[Matt Zabojnik]

My aim would be to hold only to Public Domain works, and only accept
copyrighted works that have been licensed. (Therefore, copyrighted works
would be quite scarce) Anything that is not public domain would have to be
reviewed prior to publishing.
I think it would be a good place to make and refine modules, with testing
and feedback going on, prior to the modules being submitted to Crosswire
for repository additions.
For English, most Bibles are already in SWORD format, so that probably
wouldn't be the main bulk of content. Rather dictionaries, references,
commentaries, books, and maps/atlases would be more of a focus. (I've
started to put together an open-source mapping collaboration as well, to
eventually be put into SWORD format- this could be developed there as well)

By the way, to you who want to dispute whether copyrights are right,
remember that is not the purpose of this topic. The website I'm proposing
will walk in agreement with and with honor toward copyright holders,
regardless of someone's convictions (or lack thereof) relating to
copyrighting issues.

Blessings in Christ,
Matt


On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 1:18 AM, refdoc at gmx.net <refdoc at gmx.net> wrote:

> In general I have found people who are careless about copyrights are also
> careless about the text. That kind of mitigates against being useful for
> spreading the gospel. At least in a substantial fashion. The abuses by
> copyright holders are well known too, but my experience with non-English
> copyright holders is by and large a desire to spread texts, as long as they
> are faithfully represented. And for English we have so many good texts, the
> desire to have an NIV etc in our portfolio is a desire, but far from a
> necessity.
>
> Peter
>
> Peter
>
> Peter
>
> Sent from my mobile. Please forgive shortness, typos and weird
> autocorrects.
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [sword-devel] File sharing website
> From: Jaak Ristioja
> To: sword-devel at crosswire.org
> CC:
>
>
> On 18.02.2017 01:47, refdoc at gmx.net wrote:
> > If you look at the content of the site you link to there is massive
> > copyright infringement going on. How would you plan to avoid this?
>
> As a sidenote, I do hope that this copyright is not a hindrance to the
> spread of the Gospel and to the kingdom of God.
>
> J
>
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