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Originally Posted by joshn53 View Post
What I've done so far to get more translations into SWORD is to buy a hardcopy of the translation, then use a script to scrape BibleGateway.com and convert it into the OSIS format (one of the formats that SWORD uses). I'd rather not post the script, since it could be used to violate copyright, but thought I would mention the idea.
While what you have coded (in terms of the scraping script) might be legal in your region, in many places its not - even if yu own the physical copy of the item.

The editions hosted/created by the Sword project aren't restricted by copyright such that you'd need ot scrape any sites. However, there are regional/international copyright issues that the user of whatever versions would need to be aware of before downloading those versions onto their devices.

Unfortunately, there is not enough time in the day to keep up with what version is legal where, else that list would be available outside of bible deveopment and publishing houses.

Its better, on this wise, that a person gets a notice about possible copyright issues, when using Sword or any other repositories for their Bible use.