[sword-devel] NASB

[Matt Zabojnik]

>
> The reasons are deep and political. Those who need to know them, already
> know them.

I appreciate your discretion in  your answer. Conversion difficulties was
what I was primarily concerned with, so this is, in a sense, good news.

The text is under Copyright by Lockman. Distributing the work would not be
> legally permitted without obtaining their permission.

Thank you. I have permission.

It's important for our own resources to know whence the upstream work was
> found.

I see. That being the case, there's no reason I wouldn't be able to convert
a PD work from Zefania XML for example, or any other format I find it in,
correct?

Thank you for your ongoing support and information. It is indeed very
helpful.

Blessings,
Matt

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> 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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