Re: [sword-devel] Copyright, modules, mailing list

2018-09-09 Thread ref...@gmx.net
And a final word,The majority of these interactions are quiet, easy going and altogether business like and friendly. If there are things we must reject I can count on one hand in 14 years of CrossWire volunteering where this has caused grief. Many times rejections are interim as Michael points out

Re: [sword-devel] Copyright, modules, mailing list

2018-09-09 Thread ref...@gmx.net
All of these in my last post are more or less real life examples. Stuff we have seen and I have dealt with. The examples are just that. In the end there are sometimes judgment calls, particularly where things are tricky. Non signature to Berne and late introduction of copyrights is really tricky as

Re: [sword-devel] Copyright, modules, mailing list

2018-09-09 Thread ref...@gmx.net
Good question, much is ad hoc but in the end this is how things usually run:1) "I am working on this Bible text in my language. The text us ancient, around 200 years old, but still very relevant for my country's church. I have put my source text into Github and would be grateful about some coding a

Re: [sword-devel] Copyright, modules, mailing list

2018-09-09 Thread Michael H
Andrew, If I'm trying to get a novel published and I get a rejection letter, It does not help my chances to try to publicly ridicule the guy who sent me that letter. Trying to defame Peter in his efforts is not helping your efforts, and probably has permanently removed your submissions from seriou

Re: [sword-devel] Copyright, modules, mailing list

2018-09-09 Thread Andrew T.
This is very helpful Peter. Thank you. However, I’d like to ask about enforcement. Does a module actually need to be submitted to the project to be judged? Or is it sufficient to judge modules the project has never seen by simply judging the reputation of the person working on them? What is the

[sword-devel] Copyright, modules, mailing list

2018-09-09 Thread ref...@gmx.net
Just as a reminder. CrossWise does respect copyrights and takes in general a very cautious  view in these matters. If there is a hint of a doubt regarding the public domain status we do not publish a text unless we have permissions. Whether explicit or via free licensing (Creative Commons and

Re: [sword-devel] Virtual modules (parallelism) & fragmentary texts

2018-09-09 Thread ref...@gmx.net
There is clearly no point to continue this debate. The modules you were/are producing were illegal in the view of all those who participated in the debate many years ago, but for your own. You maintained your own "interesting" and unusual reading of copyright law and were then quite alone with thi