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I work on BibleDesktop/JSword so that people can have free, high
quality software to use God's Word fully. I strongly support the rights
of individuals and corporations to their intellectual property and
copyrights. I am unwilling to provide people the tools to circumvent
these rights. I will "avoid the appearance of evil".<br>
<br>
JSword plans to provide the ability to work with OSIS bibles directly.
At this time I have not found any OSIS bibles that we can use. It is
kind of hard to develop it with out a good example, so this has not
gone anywhere other than on the wish list.<br>
<br>
Greg Hellings wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid75a952c0050823001150261c39@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Technologically it should not be an overly difficult way,
but I would
be wary of the way that this could be viewed by the copyright holder
and by the respective authorities. Seeing as how I'm neither a
lawyer nor an expert on "intellectual propery" laws, I don't know, but
if someone does have an authoritative opinion on that, it would be an
interesting idea. I have thought of a similar technology in the
past, but never was willing to put myself at risk for using it until I
had a definite legal opinion on the matter.<br>
<br>
--Greg<br>
<br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/23/05, <b
class="gmail_sendername">Eicke Godehardt</b> <<a
href="mailto:eicke.godehardt@igd.fraunhofer.de">eicke.godehardt@igd.fraunhofer.de</a>>
wrote:</span>
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I
have a similar "Problem" with german bible translations. But most<br>
translations are free for browsing and private usage. So there is no<br>
legal way to provide sword packages. But why not provide scripts,
which
<br>
allow every user to build up his own package?<br>
Just downloading, some magic sed/awk to transform it to OSIS-XML and<br>
import it into sword?<br>
Is this a possible way? What do you think?<br>
<br>
In his love,<br>
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