On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 09:09:59PM +0200, Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 03:02:33PM +0100, Sebastien Koechlin wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 06:31:43AM +0200, Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: > > > > We have to have permission to distribute the text legally. If the text > > > > is not in public domain we have to have an unambiguous > > > > licence/permission from the copyright holder. It can be a general > > > > permission given to all redistributors or one given specifically to us. > > > > > > Can someone post a example of such a permission allowing the sword-project > > > to distribute a text? > > > > > > English is not my native language, and French legislation is quite > > > different, I don't know what to write. > > It's really difficult without knowing what permissions the copyright > owner wants to give. If you work on translation for which you are not a > copyright holder, you have to ask them or just translate to English the > licence they have given.
Is it possible to read the license given by Crossway Bibles for English Standard Version as an example (I took this one at random)? > One possibility is to use Creative Commons licence: > http://creativecommons.org/license/ We do not know if we want to open it to anyone, including anti-christian web-site; or if we want to give licenses on a case-by-case basis. -- Sébastien Koechlin _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page