Chris Little wrote: > > DM Smith wrote: >> In an earlier posting I noted that without the ability to get the >> source it can be very difficult to tell where the problem originated. >> Most of our conf's don't give good enough links to the material. IMHO, >> we should give the web page on which the material can be found, if not >> the exact link from which the material is obtained. > > The TextSource field was designed to indicate where a text came from, > not necessarily where it may still be obtained. It's reasonable to > change it when a link changes to something unacceptable, but if a link > simply goes dead and isn't moved, we obviously shouldn't be changing the > TextSource to another (similar) source. People who need access to source > texts that have since been taken offline can use the Internet Archive.
This does make sense. We should probably include then a date when the text was obtained. This could also serve as a useful record should we ever be accused wrt copyrights. A fair number of free text providers changed their parameters over the years. > > Prose telling people to get updates from BF is another matter and should > of course be updated. _______________________________________________ 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