Re: [sword-devel] SWORD license issues

2021-05-15 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Dear Bastian, Thank you for taking the time to look into this and submit a patch to solve this issue.  Applied. I appreciate your contribution, Troy On 5/15/21 3:41 AM, Bastian Germann wrote: > The svn diff with the licenses is included. > > Am 15.05.21 um 10:31 schrieb Greg Hellings: >> I

Re: [sword-devel] SWORD license issues

2021-05-15 Thread Bastian Germann
The svn diff with the licenses is included. Am 15.05.21 um 10:31 schrieb Greg Hellings: > I apologize, my eyes glaze over whenever licensing discussions come up. > Please work up whatever patch you think is appropriate and get Troy to > apply it. > > --Greg > > On Fri, May 14, 2021, 15:32

Re: [sword-devel] SWORD license issues

2021-05-15 Thread Greg Hellings
I apologize, my eyes glaze over whenever licensing discussions come up. Please work up whatever patch you think is appropriate and get Troy to apply it. --Greg On Fri, May 14, 2021, 15:32 Bastian Germann wrote: > Am 26.12.20 um 19:53 schrieb Troy A. Griffitts: > >> Furthermore, some files in

Re: [sword-devel] SWORD license issues

2020-12-26 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Dear Bastian, Thank you for your email and my apologies for taking so long to get back with you.  I've been slowing committing changes over the past weeks in response to your comments.  More response below, inline. On 11/9/20 12:56 PM, Bastian Germann wrote: > Hi, > > Packaging SWORD 1.9.0 for

[sword-devel] SWORD license issues

2020-11-09 Thread Bastian Germann
Hi, Packaging SWORD 1.9.0 for Debian, I found possible license issues. The file src/utilfuns/zlib/untgz.c stems from some older zlib release. At that state, one could have assumed it to be zlib licensed which is not clearly stated in any version of that file. I opened a zlib issue at

Re: [sword-devel] Sword LICENSE

2014-02-05 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Re: Dual Ownership Yes, CrossWire as always had the policy of requiring ownership be also granted to CrossWire for any contributions which get added to our repository. This has been discussed many times and should be posted conspicuously in multiple locations on our website (I hope it is

Re: [sword-devel] Sword LICENSE

2014-02-04 Thread David Haslam
Suggest the license date range be updated to 1994-2014. And for whoever actions it to add a repeat calendar action for annual update. Blessings, David -- View this message in context: http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/Sword-LICENSE-tp4653466p4653479.html Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing

Re: [sword-devel] Sword LICENSE

2014-02-04 Thread DM Smith
FYI: You are only supposed to update a date range on a file of code when it changes. IMHO: Since copyright is a lot longer than any of us will experience, the actual end year is not that important. On Feb 4, 2014, at 3:30 PM, David Haslam dfh...@googlemail.com wrote: Suggest the license date

Re: [sword-devel] Sword LICENSE

2014-02-04 Thread Chris Little
I updated the license yesterday in r3026, with the year 2014 and a new copy of the GPL. (Our copy was a bit stale and had some errors and other stuff that had long been corrected.) --Chris On 02/04/2014 12:37 PM, DM Smith wrote: FYI: You are only supposed to update a date range on a file of

Re: [sword-devel] Sword LICENSE

2014-02-04 Thread Daniel Hughes
This might be a little off topic but does the line... The SWORD Project is (c) 1994-2006 The CrossWire Bible Society Mean that sword requires copyright assignment to CrossWire for all contributions? If so is this because CrossWire also licences SWORD under commercial terms or wants to be able to

Re: [sword-devel] Sword LICENSE

2014-02-04 Thread Jaak Ristioja
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05.02.2014 02:14, Daniel Hughes wrote: This might be a little off topic but does the line... The SWORD Project is (c) 1994-2006 The CrossWire Bible Society Mean that sword requires copyright assignment to CrossWire for all contributions? If

[sword-devel] Sword LICENSE

2014-02-03 Thread Jaak Ristioja
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello! The LICENSE file states the following: The SWORD Project is (c) 1994-2006 The CrossWire Bible Society, under the terms of the GNU GPL, as stated below. NOTE: The text of the GNU GPL license is copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation,

Re: [sword-devel] Sword LICENSE

2014-02-03 Thread Chris Little
On 02/03/2014 12:42 PM, Jaak Ristioja wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello! The LICENSE file states the following: The SWORD Project is (c) 1994-2006 The CrossWire Bible Society, under the terms of the GNU GPL, as stated below. NOTE: The text of the GNU GPL license is

Re: [sword-devel] Sword license

2003-01-17 Thread Derek Neighbors
Jimmie Houchin said: If I read the Sword/JSword source code and from that design/information write (port would be accurate?) classes, methods, etc. in Squeak to process Sword Modules would I be obligated to also use the GPL? Copyrighted works are copyrighted works. I guess it might be best

Re: [sword-devel] Sword license

2003-01-17 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Yes, I understand the GPL. In many instances I believe it is often the better license. I greatly appreciate the GPL in regard to my Linux OS. I also think it is great that you distribute WEB as Public Domain. I would do likewise if I ever publish like material. When I talk about the viral

Re: [sword-devel] Sword license

2003-01-17 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Derek Neighbors wrote: Jimmie Houchin said: If I read the Sword/JSword source code and from that design/information write (port would be accurate?) classes, methods, etc. in Squeak to process Sword Modules would I be obligated to also use the GPL? Copyrighted works are copyrighted works. I

Re: [sword-devel] Sword license

2003-01-17 Thread Chris Little
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Jimmie Houchin wrote: If I read the Sword/JSword source code and from that design/information write (port would be accurate?) classes, methods, etc. in Squeak to process Sword Modules would I be obligated to also use the GPL? If you write your own classes in Squeak to

Re: [sword-devel] Sword license

2003-01-17 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Chris Little wrote: On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Jimmie Houchin wrote: If I read the Sword/JSword source code and from that design/information write (port would be accurate?) classes, methods, etc. in Squeak to process Sword Modules would I be obligated to also use the GPL? If you write your own

Re: [sword-devel] Sword license

2003-01-17 Thread Chris Little
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Jimmie Houchin wrote: If you want to use Sword as a library of any sort (linked statically or dynamically) it requires that your work be GPL since we are not LGPL licensed. Does this mean I could not use the Sword libraries as a plugin? Would this also affect

Re: [sword-devel] Sword license

2003-01-17 Thread Joe Walker
Chris Little wrote: On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Jimmie Houchin wrote: If I read the Sword/JSword source code and from that design/information write (port would be accurate?) classes, methods, etc. in Squeak to process Sword Modules would I be obligated to also use the GPL? If you write

Re: [sword-devel] Sword license

2003-01-17 Thread Joe Walker
My understanding is that all the GPL obliges you to do is release the code under GPL. It does not stop you releasing it under the GPL AND another MIT/BSD style license (so long as there is no ad. clause conflict) Many projects like Mozilla and MySQL (IIRC) are released under 2 licences. So if

Re: [sword-devel] Sword license

2003-01-17 Thread Derek Neighbors
Joe Walker said: My understanding is that all the GPL obliges you to do is release the code under GPL. It does not stop you releasing it under the GPL AND another MIT/BSD style license (so long as there is no ad. clause conflict) Many projects like Mozilla and MySQL (IIRC) are released under

Re: [sword-devel] Sword license

2003-01-17 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Joe Walker wrote: My understanding is that all the GPL obliges you to do is release the code under GPL. It does not stop you releasing it under the GPL AND another MIT/BSD style license (so long as there is no ad. clause conflict) Many projects like Mozilla and MySQL (IIRC) are released under 2

Re: [sword-devel] Sword license

2003-01-17 Thread Chris Little
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Joe Walker wrote: If you write your own classes in Squeak to read Sword modules, you're not incorporating Sword GPL code into your work. If you read our code to see how we do it and then write your own code to perform the same functions, you're not violating our

Re: [sword-devel] Sword license

2003-01-17 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Chris Little wrote: On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Jimmie Houchin wrote: If you want to use Sword as a library of any sort (linked statically or dynamically) it requires that your work be GPL since we are not LGPL licensed. Does this mean I could not use the Sword libraries as a plugin? Would this also

Re: [sword-devel] Sword license

2003-01-17 Thread Chris Little
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Jimmie Houchin wrote: I do fully desire to be able to use OSIS documents. To me Sword project is the most open Bible software availalbe. This is why I chose this project. Texts wise, what would I miss out on by going an OSIS route? Would there be documents

Re: [sword-devel] Sword license

2003-01-17 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Chris Little wrote: On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Jimmie Houchin wrote: I do fully desire to be able to use OSIS documents. To me Sword project is the most open Bible software availalbe. This is why I chose this project. Texts wise, what would I miss out on by going an OSIS route? Would there be

[sword-devel] Sword license

2003-01-16 Thread Jimmie Houchin
I have a question about the Sword license. From what I see the source code is GPL. In many instances I have no problem with the GPL. In general I have no problem with Sword being GPL. If I read the Sword/JSword source code and from that design/information write (port would be accurate?)

Re: [sword-devel] Sword license

2003-01-16 Thread Rev. Michael Paul Johnson
At 17:37 16-01-03 -0600, Jimmie Houchin wrote: I have a question about the Sword license. From what I see the source code is GPL. In many instances I have no problem with the GPL. In general I have no problem with Sword being GPL. If I read the Sword/JSword source code and from that

[sword-devel] sword license questions

2002-04-01 Thread Nathan
My Look up app for OS X certainly isn't ready for public consumption. Part of that is getting the right license information and stuff bundled with the program. If I understand correctly, GPL allows me to do what I want with the client I'm writing - I can Copyright it to myself, keep my

Re: [sword-devel] sword license questions

2002-04-01 Thread Jerry Hastings
At 03:17 PM 4/1/2002 -0700, Nathan wrote: ... If I understand correctly, GPL allows me to do what I want with the client I'm writing - I can Copyright it to myself, keep my source to myself, and even commercialize it. But if I modify the API, I need to submit those changes back. Or am I

RE: [sword-devel] sword license questions

2002-04-01 Thread Chris Little
My Look up app for OS X certainly isn't ready for public consumption. Part of that is getting the right license information and stuff bundled with the program. If I understand correctly, GPL allows me to do what I want with the client I'm writing - I can Copyright it to myself, keep my

Re: [sword-devel] sword license questions

2002-04-01 Thread Nathan
Ahh... okay. I was thinking of LGPL (Lesser GPL), which from looking at the Sword license page, it clearly is not. So basically I have to GPL my client if I use the Sword API. I don't really have a problem with releasing my source code, I just need to get the right license information with

RE: [sword-devel] sword license questions

2002-04-01 Thread Nathan
Okay... but my client itself doesn't have to be GPLed? I have to make the source available under one of the compatible licenses. And I don't need to write GPL all over my software, right? If the source is available under GPL, do the binaries have to state that? Just curious about this stuff.