[sword-devel] Distributing modules with SWORD frontends

[DM Smith]

I suggest that you don't. We have had some recent contact with  
Crossway regarding the ESV and the expressed some concern regarding  
distribution not by way of the Crosswire server.

I suggest that you work with Troy on getting further clarification.

In Him,
   DM

On Aug 3, 2009, at 6:44 PM, Ian Wagner <iwagn973 at students.bju.edu>  
wrote:

> Oh, are you serious?! That would be amazing! I would love to  
> distribute both the ESV and KJV if possible since the ESV is very  
> quickly becoming one of the most used English translations (and my  
> personal favorite). I'll contact Crossway about that.
>
> Ian
> ---------------
> There's no place like 127.0.0.1
> http://flynnsarcade.net/
>
> On Aug 3, 2009, at 7:33 AM, Jonathan Morgan wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Ian  
>> Wagner<iwagn973 at students.bju.edu> wrote:
>>> Hey, I have been asked on several occasions if it would be  
>>> possible for me
>>> to bundle a Bible or 2 with the App Store release of PocketSword.  
>>> I am aware
>>> that this is not allowed for many modules since the license to  
>>> distribute
>>> (or whatever they call it) was granted only to Crosswire. Are  
>>> there any
>>> modules that would be legal to bundle with a frontend? I suspect  
>>> this might
>>> be permissible for the KJV, but I would like to be sure.
>>
>> If you have any particular modules you wish to distribute, then I
>> would suggest contacting the copyright holders directly.  Crossway in
>> particular are fairly liberal with giving permissions for the ESV
>> (they rejected our request to distribute BPBible with it because they
>> would prefer Crosswire to do so, but the iPhone is a different
>> environment, so YMMV).
>>
>> Jon
>>
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