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I come late to this issue and as I am not one of the programmers I think I have probably little right to a say on the matter - I will say it anyway.

"GPL v2 or later" is good as it allows widest use.

Any restrictions on the GPL though - regarding rebranding, redistribution notification or further - I think this is wrong.

As others have said there is an abundance of unfree, but cost-free Bible software around. 

Crosswire's software not special because it is so good (it is excellent but this is irrelevant for my point) it is special because of its licence. 

I am just now negotiating with two groups of non-English publishers regarding translation of BD and incorporation of their material into Crosswire's repositories. Both got very excited when they saw the freedom the GPL offered them - it was news to them that such a licence even existed - all other software they ever dealt with was so heavily restricted that as small publishers in minority languages they had difficulties getting use out of it. E-sword for example can only be distributed from esword's website - making it useless if you have net censorship difficulties.


Wrt Thinkall sofware - do a search on Google and forget about them afterwards - practically every link I opened seemed to describe them as scamsters and that is that. You would not be able to stop scamsters anyway unless you sue them.
 

If you are really so upset about the possibility (or actuality)  of abuse there is always the possibility of making the FFS copyright holders - not sure whether this is something Stallman would be happy about (given that he is AFAIk atheist) but they seem to have a track record of bring GPL abusers to the book. 

God bless you all and thanks for the wonderful software!

Peter
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