[sword-devel] Releasing application under sword GNUpubliclicense

peter refdoc at gmx.net
Mon Sep 17 02:18:29 MST 2007


That is a nice application.

BTW is there a away to make it see already installed Bibles short of
copying them around? I see that currently modules are installed directly
in the directory of the actual programme.

Peter


mmital wrote
> Thank you all for the input.
> 
> 1) I have no reservations about giving away source code. I can upload the 
> source code tomorrow,  but it will take me time to read through and become 
> familiar with entire GNU GPL (I am a slow reader :)
> 
> 2) I see there are several projects listed at crosswire.org under the 
> umbrella of the sword project. Would it be possible to add this application 
> to that ? I have no problems conforming to your rules. (I  am willing to 
> make whatever changes necessary) Theoretically, all sword modules should 
> work with eBible. Currently I have only made available a few modules 
> available for download, since the copyright and distribution policies for 
> other modules was unclear to me. Under the umbrella of sword project, users 
> of eBible will have access to ALL modules that the sword project has to 
> offer.
> 
> Thanks for your patience while responding my million questions :)
> mmital
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Eeli Kaikkonen" <eekaikko at mail.student.oulu.fi>
> To: "SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum" <sword-devel at crosswire.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 4:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Releasing application under sword 
> GNUpubliclicense
> 
> 
>> On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
>>> Also, you are welcome to take a reasonable time, let's say 1 week, to
>>> decide if you would like to continue to use the SWORD engine and accept
>>> the license that goes along with it.
>>>
>>> -Troy.
>> Believe Troy, not me :)
>>
>> As a side note I want to say that most people who don't know Open Source
>> or Free Software world have some kind of feeling that "my code" is
>> secret and does not belong to anyone else. That is a psychological
>> pretension which I personally have seen to be false. Open Source gives
>> both you and others possibilities which closed source can not give. I
>> have received freely so I give freely.
>>
>>  Yours,
>> Eeli Kaikkonen (Mr.), Oulu, Finland
>> e-mail: eekaikko at mailx.studentx.oulux.fix (with no x)
>>
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