Unless and until this fork is unable to read a Sword module format, this discussion is moot. The distribution had no bearing on the software that does the parsing of the file.
On Sep 27, 2016 11:32 AM, "DM Smith" <dmsm...@crosswire.org> wrote: > > On Sep 27, 2016, at 7:52 AM, Matěj Cepl wrote: > > On 2016-09-26, 21:10 GMT, DM Smith wrote: > > A fork of the CrossWire library (SWORD or JSword) may or may > not be seen by the copyright holders to be mechanism of > distribution and access that they are willing to license their > work. I know of one publisher of a popular module in > particular that would not. > > > Of course, this is yet another example of the complete mess > about the Biblical modules. Is there somewhere a list of all > modules with their appropriate licenses under they are > distributed, or are all of them (except for the three > I maintain) proprietary? Which modules are explicitly permitted > to be used only with the code you control? > > I would like to know so that I can file a bug against SwordJS, > that it must eliminate some modules to comply. > > See DistributionLicense in https://crosswire.org/wiki/DevTools:conf_Files. > Basically if it says: > Copyrighted; Permission to distribute granted to CrossWire > then it is specific to CrossWire. > Note, compare this as case insensitive, allowing whitespace and variations > in punctuation. In one instance it has “CrossWire Bible Society”. In > another it has a couple extra words after copyrighted. > Our wiki says it should be verbatim which is meant to allow simple > filtering. > > Modules from other repositories might have a different company name. > I’d suggest the following regexp: > m/.*permission\s+to\s+distribute\s+granted\s+to.*/i > > If it merely says: > Copyrighted > then we haven’t stated any further distribution restrictions, but it’d > probably be best to exclude as well unless the conf says elsewhere it is > ok. We try not to use this string, but it is present in 5 modules. > > Hope this helps. > > In His Service, > DM Smith > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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