[sword-devel] New/modern (copyrighted) bible translations

[David Haslam]

In 2012, it just happened to be in Germany for convenience. It was basically an event immediately preceding another larger conference called EMDC at the same location that year.

The two gatherings are not formally connected and both are “moveable feasts” that have met at other venues separately.

AFAIK, the most recent gathering butted up to the last meeting of the SBL, but I was not in attendance at either.

CrossWire is not going to register as a non-Profit for the simple reason that it is non-Income. We simply have no accounts to be audited under non-Profit regulations in any jurisdiction.

It’s a much looser association than any such type of organisation. Everyone connected with CrossWire does so freely as a volunteer.

We already provide a module encryption feature. Copyright owners themselves are expected to manage the user access to unlock keys. Only a few publishers have so far chosen to avail themselves of this facility. One that has is the publisher of the NET Bible.

Regards,

David

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On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 15:31, Tobias Klein <contact at tklein.info> wrote:

> On 10.03.19 15:44, David Haslam wrote:
>
>> And when I was at the Digital Bible Summit in Germany during 2012 we were even actively encouraged to apply.
>
> Oh cool, I didn't even know that such an event took place over here.
>
>> I attended by invitation. The organisers were fully aware of my role in CrossWire.
>>
>> Aside: CrossWire is a non-income Society, so the question of making a payment to a copyright owner for a distribution license simply does not arise.
>
> I guess the following would be required:
>
> - A non-profit organisation, that is legally allowed to charge their users to pay for the license fees.
> - Some kind of payment / unlock system integrated with sword
> - Some additional administration efforts due to that
> - Dealing with the fiscal system and your donors every year
>
> In Germany it's pretty easy to set up non profit orgs like that. You just need the man power for it ...
> There's actually a well known and big open source project that runs its organization based on a non-profit in Germany ([KDE e.v.](https://ev.kde.org/) for the KDE desktop).
>
> Best regards,
> Tobias
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