[sword-devel] Platform for the distribution of non-free Sword Modules

[David Haslam]

One point that Tobias may have not yet have become aware of is the existence of the STEP Bible ministry of Tyndale House, Cambridge.

Some modern copyrighted Bibles are already available in SWORD format through STEP Bible.

It’s just that some of these modules have only been licensed to be distributed by STEP rather than by CrossWire.

And so far, the STEP team has not created a proper modules repository that can be accessed by other front-end apps.

STEP is based on JSword.

Regards,

David

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On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 22:47, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 5:34 PM Peter von Kaehne <refdoc at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> I would actively oppose this proposal.
>>
>> Leaving aside a few popular but otherwise irrelevant texts (NIV etc)
>
> Why do you say "irrelevant", when there are regular requests from people - both like Tobais as well as people more meekly asking in other fora - for exactly that module (and others; NRSV is of keen interest to me along with the Jerusalem/New Jerusalem Bibles and a UBS 5th ed complete with apparatus). What is "irrelevant" about a module that users are requesting?
>
> --Greg
>
>> there is nothing gained in this proposal. I do not want us to sell
>> texts and by and large we get the texts we really want or need for
>> free.
>>
>> DBL is a matter of concern - agreed. But not the rest.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> On Tue, 2019-03-12 at 22:19 +0000, David Haslam wrote:
>>> I first had to learn what the jargon meant - which just about
>>> demonstrated that there are some aspects of this proposal for which
>>> I’m not ideally suited.
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer?wprov=sfti1
>>>
>>> David
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 22:11, Tobias Klein <contact at tklein.info>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > I'm following up on the last thread that I started. Who would be
>>> > interested in actively supporting the following idea:
>>> >
>>> > - Develop/set up an online platform that sells non-free Bible
>>> > translations as locked Sword modules
>>> > - Establish a non-profit that becomes a Library Card Holder @ The
>>> > Digital Bible Library (DBL)
>>> > - Negotiate with Bible Societies to actually get licenses for
>>> > distributing specific non-free Bible translations
>>> > - Develop a software that uses the DBL's REST API for automatically
>>> > creating locked Sword modules
>>> >
>>> > Anyone interested? We would need:
>>> > - People who handle communication/negotiation
>>> > - People who know how to set up an online platform (ideally with
>>> > web programming skills)
>>> > - People who create the software that creates sword modules from
>>> > the DBL REST API.
>>> > - People with admin/accounting skills
>>> >
>>> > Best regards,
>>> > Tobias
>>>
>>>
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