On 07/25/2012 09:27 AM, Greg Hellings wrote:
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Andrew Thule <[email protected]> wrote:
Since Crosswire freely allows modules to be downloaded and governs the
use of these modules afterwards through the each modules' licensing
rights, is there something else that precludes their downstream
redistribution so long as the original license is honoured and
preserved? (In other words, if the licenses is established by the
original module creator, or the license holder for the text, is
Crosswire able to impose additional restrictions on the use of the
text? Should it (not)?)
So long as the license requirements are fulfilled, there is nothing
preventing redistribution. As I recall, the initial reaction to your
announcement was not that you must take it down but that you must
filter those modules which are licensed for only Crosswire's
distribution. Any modules which are in the Public Domain or which have
licenses that do not restrict their distribution to e.g. CrossWire
only, you are free to mirror. However, you would have to manually
create such a list by inspecting each module's license individually by
hand.
Small comment re: manual work: You don't have to inspect the .confs
manually. Just scan for content with one of the following
DistributionLicense values (exactly), and you know that it is
distributable by 3rd parties (at least in Sword format):
Public Domain
Copyrighted; Free non-commercial distribution
Copyrighted; Freely distributable
Copyrighted; Permission granted to distribute non-commercially in SWORD
format
GFDL
GPL
Creative Commons: by-nc-nd
Creative Commons: by-nc-sa
Creative Commons: by-nc
Creative Commons: by-nd
Creative Commons: by-sa
Creative Commons: by
Creative Commons: CC0
(Two of the possible values were removed from this set.)
--Chris
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