<div dir="ltr">My aim would be to hold only to Public Domain works, and only accept copyrighted works that have been licensed. (Therefore, copyrighted works would be quite scarce) Anything that is not public domain would have to be reviewed prior to publishing.<div>I think it would be a good place to make and refine modules, with testing and feedback going on, prior to the modules being submitted to Crosswire for repository additions.</div><div>For English, most Bibles are already in SWORD format, so that probably wouldn't be the main bulk of content. Rather dictionaries, references, commentaries, books, and maps/atlases would be more of a focus. (I've started to put together an open-source mapping collaboration as well, to eventually be put into SWORD format- this could be developed there as well)</div><div><br></div><div>By the way, to you who want to dispute whether copyrights are right, remember that is not the purpose of this topic. The website I'm proposing will walk in agreement with and with honor toward copyright holders, regardless of someone's convictions (or lack thereof) relating to copyrighting issues.</div><div><br></div><div>Blessings in Christ,</div><div>Matt<br><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 1:18 AM, <a href="mailto:refdoc@gmx.net">refdoc@gmx.net</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:refdoc@gmx.net" target="_blank">refdoc@gmx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In general I have found people who are careless about copyrights are also careless about the text. That kind of mitigates against being useful for spreading the gospel. At least in a substantial fashion. The abuses by copyright holders are well known too, but my experience with non-English copyright holders is by and large a desire to spread texts, as long as they are faithfully represented. And for English we have so many good texts, the desire to have an NIV etc in our portfolio is a desire, but far from a necessity.<br><br>Peter<br><br>Peter<br><br>Peter<span class="im HOEnZb"><br><br>Sent from my mobile. Please forgive shortness, typos and weird autocorrects.</span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="m_-4443582679728490112quote" style="line-height:1.5"><br><br>-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: Re: [sword-devel] File sharing website<br>From: Jaak Ristioja <u></u><br>To: <a href="mailto:sword-devel@crosswire.org" target="_blank">sword-devel@crosswire.org</a><br>CC: <br><br><br type="attribution"><blockquote class="m_-4443582679728490112quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 18.02.2017 01:47, <a href="mailto:refdoc@gmx.net" target="_blank">refdoc@gmx.net</a> wrote:<br>> If you look at the content of the site you link to there is massive<br>> copyright infringement going on. How would you plan to avoid this?<br><br>As a sidenote, I do hope that this copyright is not a hindrance to the<br>spread of the Gospel and to the kingdom of God.<br><br>J<br><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>sword-devel mailing list: <a href="mailto:sword-devel@crosswire.org" target="_blank">sword-devel@crosswire.org</a><br><a href="http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel" target="_blank">http://www.crosswire.org/<wbr>mailman/listinfo/sword-devel</a><br>Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page<br></blockquote></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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