<div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>The two gatherings are not formally connected and both are “moveable feasts” that have met at other venues separately. </div><div><br></div><div>AFAIK, the most recent gathering butted up to the last meeting of the SBL, but I was not in attendance at either. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>It’s a much looser association than any such type of organisation. Everyone connected with CrossWire does so freely as a volunteer. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div><br></div><div id="protonmail_mobile_signature_block">Sent from ProtonMail Mobile</div> <div><br></div><div><br></div>On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 15:31, Tobias Klein <<a href="mailto:contact@tklein.info" class="">contact@tklein.info</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="protonmail_quote" type="cite">
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<div>And when I was at the Digital Bible Summit in Germany during
2012 we were even actively encouraged to apply. <br>
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Oh cool, I didn't even know that such an event took place over here.<br>
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<div>I attended by invitation. The organisers were fully aware of
my role in CrossWire. </div>
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<div>Aside: CrossWire is a non-income Society, so the question of
making a payment to a copyright owner for a distribution license
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<p>I guess the following would be required:</p>
<p>- A non-profit organisation, that is legally allowed to charge
their users to pay for the license fees.<br>
- Some kind of payment / unlock system integrated with sword<br>
- Some additional administration efforts due to that<br>
- Dealing with the fiscal system and your donors every year</p>
<p>In Germany it's pretty easy to set up non profit orgs like that.
You just need the man power for it ...<br>
There's actually a well known and big open source project that
runs its organization based on a non-profit in Germany (<a href="https://ev.kde.org/">KDE e.v.</a>
for the KDE desktop).<br>
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<p>Best regards,<br>
Tobias<br>
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