<div>One point that Tobias may have not yet have become aware of is the existence of the STEP Bible ministry of Tyndale House, Cambridge. </div><div><br></div><div>Some modern copyrighted Bibles are already available in SWORD format through STEP Bible. </div><div><br></div><div>It’s just that some of these modules have only been licensed to be distributed by STEP rather than by CrossWire. </div><div><br></div><div>And so far, the STEP team has not created a proper modules repository that can be accessed by other front-end apps. </div><div><br></div><div>STEP is based on JSword. </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 Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 22:47, Greg Hellings <<a href="mailto:greg.hellings@gmail.com" class="">greg.hellings@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="protonmail_quote" type="cite"> <div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 5:34 PM Peter von Kaehne <<a href="mailto:refdoc@gmx.net">refdoc@gmx.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I would actively oppose this proposal. <br>
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Leaving aside a few popular but otherwise irrelevant texts (NIV etc)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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?<br></div><div><br></div><div>--Greg</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
there is nothing gained in this proposal. I do not want us to sell<br>
texts and by and large we get the texts we really want or need for<br>
free. <br>
<br>
DBL is a matter of concern - agreed. But not the rest. <br>
<br>
Peter<br>
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On Tue, 2019-03-12 at 22:19 +0000, David Haslam wrote:<br>
> I first had to learn what the jargon meant - which just about<br>
> demonstrated that there are some aspects of this proposal for which<br>
> I’m not ideally suited. <br>
> <br>
> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer?wprov=sfti1" rel="noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer?wprov=sfti1</a><br>
> <br>
> David<br>
> <br>
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> <br>
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 22:11, Tobias Klein <<a href="mailto:contact@tklein.info">contact@tklein.info</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
> > Hi,<br>
> > <br>
> > I'm following up on the last thread that I started. Who would be<br>
> > interested in actively supporting the following idea:<br>
> > <br>
> > - Develop/set up an online platform that sells non-free Bible<br>
> > translations as locked Sword modules<br>
> > - Establish a non-profit that becomes a Library Card Holder @ The<br>
> > Digital Bible Library (DBL)<br>
> > - Negotiate with Bible Societies to actually get licenses for<br>
> > distributing specific non-free Bible translations<br>
> > - Develop a software that uses the DBL's REST API for automatically<br>
> > creating locked Sword modules<br>
> > <br>
> > Anyone interested? We would need:<br>
> > - People who handle communication/negotiation<br>
> > - People who know how to set up an online platform (ideally with<br>
> > web programming skills)<br>
> > - People who create the software that creates sword modules from<br>
> > the DBL REST API.<br>
> > - People with admin/accounting skills<br>
> > <br>
> > Best regards,<br>
> > Tobias<br>
> <br>
> <br>
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