[sword-devel] NASB

[Greg Hellings]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Matt Zabojnik <mattzab at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the info!
>
> Would you mind explaining in different terms your reason for aborting the
> project? I didn't fully understand. Delivering to Lockman wasn't going to
> work for some reason?
>
The reasons are deep and political. Those who need to know them, already
know them.


> I haven't yet started working on this module, but the intent will be mass
> distribution rather than personal use only.
>
The text is under Copyright by Lockman. Distributing the work would not be
legally permitted without obtaining their permission.

> Is it common for people to convert stuff for personal use? And how
> important is it to declare where I obtained a source text for public domain
> materials? I didn't see coverage on either of those in the wiki.
>
It's important for our own resources to know whence the upstream work was
found. This allows repeatable module generation should the upstream source
ever be updated and corrected. Very often problems are uncovered in
upstream works during the module creation process and this typically
continues once the module is in users' hands. The NASB, however, is not a
public domain work.

--Greg

>
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017, 12:15 PM Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Eons ago, Crosswire received permission from Lockman to begin work on an
> NSAB module that they could commercially deliver to users who paid for it.
>
> Many people have tackled the work of performing the conversions from
> Lockman's internal, proprietary markup to a Sword module. Each one has, for
> various reasons, abandoned the work. Most recently it was me, and I gave up
> due to a lack of a consistent or realistic objective for delivery of the
> results to Lockman.
>
> You can, essentially, assume that nothing more will ever come of it from
> the official channel. You'd be best to pursue converting another digital
> source for your own personal use.
>
> --Greg
>
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 1:06 PM, Matt Zabojnik <mattzab at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What's the status on the NASB module? I saw it mentioned in the dictionary
> message. This is the first I've heard of it, being new to sword devel.
>
> I'm currently working to convert NASB with strongs, footnotes and
> references, but I need to learn OSIS and RegEx better first.
>
> Who here is the point-man on tyre work that's already been done there?
>
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