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OK, I've committed my initial work into SVN. Nathan, could you please work on getting the appropriate packaging control files created?

Also, the current version doesn't handle a situation where there aren't any texts available. I'm in the middle of handling this situation by allowing the user to download sword texts from the internet or import a Bible+ file. In the meantime, testers will need to use rapier or some other program to download texts.

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I don't like doing this, and mods are free to handslap if needed, but when some pieces of the disucsison in this thread turned towards copyright and licensing, I began the ardious process of putting some of this together in (nearly) plain language:

Copyright, Licensing, and Mobile Bible Ethics

This should give some perspective to some of the issues related to the content behind Bibles and other copyrighted materials these days.

In the interest of this topic, can comments be taken to another thread (here or elsewhere) or on the linked post.

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 

the link is broken, you have a " at the start :)
it should be:
Copyright, Licensing, and Mobile Bible Ethics

very interesting article to read! well done :)

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What I understand you to be saying, as it relates to Katana, is that e-Sword, etc. can't legally allow us to use their modules, since they only have a license from the copyright holders of the texts to use the modules inside their application; for us to use them, they would need to renegotiate with the copyright holders.

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Don't want to divert this thread, I'll quote and answer at MMM.

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Good article. In the case of Katana, the mods that would have copyright issues would need to have buy-in from the companies that own rights to the materials (OliveTree, E-Sword, etc). I know in the case of OliveTree, they already support every major mobile platform except Maemo. So if we work with them to provide a closed source module that handled their format, then they could work the licensing on that module just like they do with their readers. I'm no lawyer, but I think that would stand up to a lot of scrutiny.

As much as I love open source modules and applications, I do realize that in some cases like this, we will have problems getting buy-in from companies that have to abide by their content licenses without allowing closed source modules for their content.
Just my 2 cents.

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Just got notice that I'll be one of the speakers at BIbleTech next March. If I can get my hands on an N900 before then, I'd love to be able to show off this app (and community's involvement towards it) as part of my mobile-induced presentation.

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You guys have a killer start on this! If you need help talking to Laridian, I think I might be able to help ;)

I am currently refreshing my old C++ knowledge and playing around with Qt, so I may be able to help at some point. I have a lot of ideas about the social aspect, so I may start drafting something up for the social plugin. I pre-ordered the N900, so hopefully I can do some real life testing/on-device development in the near future.

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Yes, talk to Laridian pretty please. I believe though they are already looking at this thread some - not necessarly to do anything, but in respect to watching trends in the mobile development space and where to future-plan.

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Sorry for the delay I had some family issues crop up. I've submitted a new version today with this change.

Nathan