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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/19/25 4:48 PM, Ed Backell wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">At one time, we DID have an ESV module. I still
have it. </div>
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<div dir="auto">Do you know why permission for distribution was
dropped? Any chance we could petition to get it back,
especially now that the NASB has given us permission for use?</div>
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<font face="FreeSerif">I have it as well; many thousands of people
do. It's unclear how far one could let one's personal copies ...
migrate.<br>
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I understand that ESV's copyright owner decided they were changing
how they wished to have it distributed. Way back when (2011), ESV
was the new kid on the block and needed audience and users when
Sword got permission to distribute. Now ESV is settled and stable
and widely used, so they don't need us any more. This change kinda
sorta coincided with their ESV-specific apps on smartphones and
tablets. I note that they didn't stop BibleGateway or other
websites from distributing it.<br>
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NASB was first made available to be developoed into a Sword module
in Jan 2004. It took ~15 years before it was "ready" and that
happened immediately after ESV permission to distribute was
withdrawn.<br>
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I'm far more fond of NET and BSB, which are the most recent
comprehensive translations, and readily available. But my parallel
choices in Xiphos include NET, BSB, ESV, NASB, and some others.<br>
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