Don Parris wrote:
---------- Original Message ------------- Subject: Re: Applying for copyright maintainer - cease and desist Re: [sword-devel] One thing That I would like to see... Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:09:44 -0500 From: "Bryan L. Fordham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sword Dev <sword-devel@crosswire.org>
Daniel Glassey wrote:
If you have $10,000 and can guarrantee royalties then they may discuss it with you - that is what Zondervan require. afaik Zondervan sell their own software with the NIV so I don't think they will sell a sword module themselves. There are more translations than the NIV so if Zondervan don't want to distribute it for our software that is their choice. I know there are commercial bible software people (Hi guys :) ) on this list and afaiu they haven't had it easy dealing with Zondervan, so don't feel too bad that we aren't going to get the NIV.
I purchased the NIV and the NASB for use with The On-Line Bible for Windows a few years ago. Since I no longer run Windows, it does me no good. I do value the NIV tremendously, and cannot imagine why they would not make it available to us, if they made it available to the On-Line Bible and others. In my own estimate, such behavior is discriminatory and counter-productive for them. Of course, that's my own opinion.
I don't believe it is an issue of discrimination. (It might be if they are trying not to add new licensees because they want to push their own software, which I do not know to be the case. But I think your suggestion here is that they are showing preferential treatment to other outside vendors, e.g. OLB, so that's a different issue.) The problem isn't that they would make CrossWire meet different standards from OLB or Logos or BibleWorks or whatever. The problem is that we don't have the facilities to meet the monetary & accounting requirements that they have for all vendors. (I do acknowledge that Zondervan might have differing licensing practices for different vendors; I'm just trying to say that I don't think we could meet the requirements that we have been told in the past exist.) Furthermore, it's a free country (I use that in the rhetorical idiomatic sense and do not mean to falsely imply that this applies only to Americans or that radical right-wing America is in fact "free" by, say, 1789's standards) and Zondervan is free to discriminate all they want, with regard to whom they choose to do business with.
I would like to ask if the NASB is actually going to be available soon? I know that when I sumbitted an e-mail to their copyright office (early last year), I was informed that they had already agreed to make it available. I saw some posts about the NASB module, but don't know if that pertains to the developers getting it ready for release.
Gosh, we hope so. :) We need to get version 1.5.8 of the library released, then BibleCS 1.5.8, since they are going to be needed for the NASB. I'm supposed to finish up the NASB lexicons, and I should really take a day off from writing my thesis to do this--maybe this weekend. I think the NASB itself is finished and ready for sale as soon as all of the other parts are ready.
--Chris
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