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

[Peter von Kaehne]

On Sun, 2019-03-10 at 10:50 -1000, Michael Johnson wrote:
> Hello, Tobias & all.
> 
> I would like to clear up a misconception about the Every Tribe Every
> Nation (ETEN) Digital Bible Library (DBL). Getting admitted as a
> library card holder does not give you access to any Bible
> translations you cannot access without such access. Read that again.
> Getting admitted as a library card holder does not give you access to
> any Bible translations you cannot access without such access. All it
> does is give you a channel to negotiate individually with all of the
> Intellectual Property Contributors (IPCs)
> in the DBL, more or less like you would without the DBL.

That may be so in theory, but in practice lack of membership has shut
down a growing number of negotiations I was involved in. There is no
good reason why we are not a member and every reason to be a member. 

Peter