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I just received this response from the copyright holders of the New
Vietnamese Bible (NVB), published in 2002. As I understand their
response, they are granting permission for Crosswire to distribute the
NVB but would like to have linking between the two websites. Perhaps
they want to give people a chance to buy printed editions. I am not
sure how the linking would work exactly, whether we could have a
Vietnamese language wiki page or what, but it seems appropriate to
present this to sword-devel to see what next steps should be taken. Is
this documentation clear enough to satisfy the need to have permission
to distribute a module? What about creating links between the two sites?<br>
<br>
Daniel<br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Good morning Daniel,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I pray that you are well and that the
Lord is blessing you. The VBI NVB Publication Committee has approved
your request (below) on behalf of Crosswire Bible Society. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">We have approved a mutual partnership
with Crosswire that will link Crosswire with our NVB website, and our
website with Crosswire's. Dual links will serve to increase the web
traffic on both sites, and provide other important options for
searchers. In summary, o</font>ur site will link to CW so that their VN
users can immediately go to our web site for Scripture and our users
can go immediately to another good English translation on the CW site.
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Please let me know the decision of
Crosswire regarding this cross-link partnership.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Leon Taylor - Chairman</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Vietnamese Bible, Inc.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">To
whom it may concern:<br>
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I am seeking the copyright holder of the New Vietnamese Bible. I would
like to ask permission to distribute the NVB on behalf of the Crosswire
Bible Society.<br>
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The Crosswire Bible Society is a non-profit organization which
maintains a library of Bibles and Bible study materials, also called
the Sword Library. They develop free Bible programs to use the Sword
Library in Windows, Mac, Linux, Palm, and Pocket PC as well as
providing an online interface for the library. I would like to make the
NVB available for their library. You can view their website at </font><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.crosswire.org"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3">http://www.crosswire.org</font></a><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3">.<br>
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My goal is to add Vietnamese-language Bibles and other study materials
to the Sword Library as well as translate program interfaces so that
Vietnamese pastors can have free Bible software for study and sermon
preparation which not only includes Vietnamese texts but Greek, Hebrew,
English, and other languages. In the end pastors and students will be
able to do serious biblical exegesis using the Sword library.<br>
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If you could put me in touch with the right person to contact regarding
this request, I would appreciate it. I normally live in Vietnam, but I
am temporarily in Singapore. I can be reached at (telephone number) or
at this email address.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
Daniel Owens</font></font></div>
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