[sword-devel] Bible-Discovery - non-free program using SWORD modules

DM Smith dmsmith at crosswire.org
Thu Aug 27 12:36:55 MST 2009


On 08/27/2009 03:32 PM, Matthew Talbert wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Peter von Kaehne<refdoc at gmx.net>  wrote:
>    
>> David Haslam wrote:
>>      
>>> Has anyone seen this site before?
>>>
>>> http://www.bible-discovery.com/ Bible-Discovery
>>>        
>> Looks to me jsword derived.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>      
>>> I saw no reference to availability of source code. Isn't this in breach of
>>> the GPLv2 license?
>>>        
>> It probably would be.
>>
>> Peter
>>      
> Isn't jsword LGPL?
>    
Yes. But, BD is GPL. However, the stylesheets are all GPL as part of BD. 
JSword is not useful without the stylesheets. If they used/derived from 
one of the stylesheet, then their program is infected.

-- DM



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