Since CrossWire doesn't not have a J2ME Bible Reader, would the developers of GoBible consider CrossWire as a home for continued opensource development? It wouldn't be too hard, I'm sure, to add a GoBible driver to the SWORD engine and create a mod2gomod utility-- officially supporting the format as a SWORD format. In fact, it might be a nice combination to use with the standoff markup filters Barry Drake and others are talking about developing.
-Troy. Greg Hellings wrote: > On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Peter von Kaehne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Chris Little wrote: >>> Peter von Kaehne wrote: >>>> We have a fair number of Bibles which are only distributable via >>>> Crosswire due to to the permissions given to us - but expanding our work >>>> into GoBible would seem like a natural extension to what Crosswire does >>>> anyway. Should we not consider >>>> >>>> a) creating GoBible modules ourselves and hosting them from Crosswire >>>> server where permissions are not there to allow others to create and >>>> distribute? >>> I don't have a problem with collaboration, but our having permission to >>> distribute content in Sword format does not imply any kind of permission >>> to distribute content in other formats. The contracts I've seen are >>> specific in identifying _Sword_ format rather than giving blanket >>> publication permission to CrossWire. >> The contracts I signed (Farsi Bibles) were unspecific non-commercial >> electronic format, but for distribution by Crosswire and my church. >> >> So I guess we would need to dig out all relevant agreements and see what >> is allowed and what not as it may be different for each module - which >> is what one would expect. >> >> Since I became aware of GoBible and David's + Jolon's work I am always >> approaching everyone with both projects in mind - which would be a lot >> easier if we simply set this out as one of the things we want to do in >> Crosswire - produce Bible modules for all platforms - and include >> mobile phones. > > We aren't platform specific here - between JSword and The SWORD > Project, we pretty much cover any system with an open development > environment available with either Java or C/C++ tools. We are > format-specific, but that format can be taken pretty much anywhere > that the plain OSIS of the GoBible can be taken. > > Which makes me wonder if the approach of maintaining the OSIS file and > creating an index to it isn't the better way to go about this, then > the import tools need only produce the indecies rather than a whole > regurgitated format. Ah well, just some speculation. > > --Greg > >> Peter >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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