I was wondering if there had ever been any progress on this?:) Specifically, an arabic translation with the vowels(as esword has).
On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 14:17 +0000, peter wrote: > Troy and Chris, > > I copy you in this exchange I have with John H regarding the Arabic > Smith van Dyke vocalised translation. This is much more readable that > the text we have which is without vowels. So it is desirable to get it > with suitable distribution rights. > > You might remember an exchange of emails a few months ago on the mailing > list. Since then I have tracked down the copy right holder (for the > vowel addition/electronic text) and have been in an on/off > email/telephone conversation. They > > Essentially they are a very slow moving outfit. Looking at their > websites and the websites of churches associated with them, you will see > they are often not updated for years. > > They are also very protective of the text and do not want to release it > without clear legal agreement and - they can not multi task, seemingly > being only one person doing the work, probably in his spare time. At the > moment they are in the final throws of a agreeing a legal settlement > with someone else and I am next in line. Or so I am told. > > I think to harass them will be counter productive - hence I asked Costas > , another guy who contacted me off list and claimed to know them > somewhat - to stay out of it for the moment. > > I am sure with patience we will get the rights to the text - 6 months? > My aim is to get rights for Crosswire and its recipients to > non-commercially redistribute the unaltered finalised module. So no > re-export into Xephania or e-sword or whatever. "Creative Commons > Attribution-Non-commercial-No Derivative Works" or some such. > > The last two times I got seriously copyrighted texts it took me 9/12 of > patient digging to get an actual agreement - after I had basic > agreement..... > > The step after that - I will be totally incapable of doing something > with the text as it is in Word and i see no way for my limited skills to > get it into sword. But I gather from Chris that that would actually be > simple? > > My "bartering" is based on that they can use Crosswire's software to > their own aims including redistributing it from their site and also that > we would give them the OSIS version for whatever else they want to use it. > > God bless you. > > Peter > > > John H. wrote: > > Ok. > > > > More time for what? I guess I am confused cuz I thought you just asked > > them if > > you could use the code for a module. > > > > peter wrote: > >> Ok, > >> > >> I got today again a response. > >> > >> They ask for more time. > >> > >> So, I will wait for that. > >> > >> Peter > >> > >> John H. wrote: > >> > >>> I thought the greek guy, constas, had a contact there? he said he spoke > >>> to you? > >>> > >>> peter wrote: > >>> > >>>> They have gone completely silent. > >>>> > >>>> I send a reminder a week or two ago - no response > >>>> > >>>> John H. wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> I was wondering whatever became of the AraSVD with vowels. > >>>>> > >>>>> peter wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>>> John H. wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> Peter, was wondering if you got my email about the status? > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>> No? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >> > >> > > >
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