Jolon Faichney (the author the Go Bible program for mobile phones) approached Zondervan in 2007, to request their permission for the NIV.
On May 10th, 2007, he reported having got a reply to the effect that "the NIV costs US$10,000 to license and then US$10 per copy. There is also a rather detailed approval process." Source = Go Bible Forum http:// http://jolon.org/vanillaforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7 Is it conceivable that Rick Meyers payed IBS (now http://www.biblica.com/ Biblica ) a similar license fee for distributing the e-Sword NIV? If so, he must have done the maths for the business model based on the charge per copy for users to download. Being a non-income "organization", CrossWire is just not in this league. -- David Haslam Karl Kleinpaste-2 wrote: > > Ryan <adye...@gmail.com> writes: >> Earlier this year I contacted IBS and they told me "Our policy at this >> time does not allow us to release the NIV database to individuals or for >> use in Linux based, open source or shareware software products; >> therefore IBS-STL will not be granting your request for use of the NIV." > > Gee, it must be nice to know that they would actually recognize your > corporeal existence. > > The prejudice as to computer environments is nauseating. I'd say from > that text that they probably suffer from the delusion of Linux as "a > hacker's system" and that "open source" equates in their minds to > "unable to secure the text," yet they've had NIV/NIrV/TNIV available for > eSword for years which, until 60 days ago, had the crappiest excuse for > anti-security the computer world has ever seen. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Often-requested-yet-never-available-Bibles-tp24651415p24660434.html Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ 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
