In 2018 Opensong offered the following English versions of the Bible: Amplified, CEV, ESV, KJV, The Message, NASB, NIV, NKJV, Modern KJV, and New RSV. Now, they only show two versions KJV and one other. Why?
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I don't know, where you looked to find "KJV and one other".
On our website there is just KJV in the English section. But there is a link to Zefania XML which has 50 in their English section.
Granted, these are not the modern mainstream ones, but it is impossible to legally offer them for download, and for an open source application virtually impossible to get publishers to offer some way of obtaining licenses at any cost.
Last edit: SvA 2025-02-18
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I don't know, where you looked to find "KJV an one other".
On our website https://opensong.org/downloads/#bibles there is just KJV
in the English section. But there is a link to Zefania XML which has 50 in
their English section.
Granted, these are not the modern mainstream ones, but it is impossible to
legally offer them for download, and for an open source application
virtually impossible to get publishers to offer some way of obtaining
licenses at any cost.
Notice in your screenshot that we had referenced removing NLT due to a communication we received from Tyndale, the copyright owner for NLT, because they did not want us distributing their copyrighted material. After discussion between the OpenSong devs, we decided the appropriate course of action would be to err on the side of caution and remove all non-public-domain translations. We did not intend to infringe on anyone's copyrighted intellectual property, just like we would not want someone to infringe on ours. Additionally, OpenSong is currently uses the GPLv2 license. None of these works were compatible with the GPLv2 license. We really had no other choice but to remove these files.
I have deleted all copies I had of the copyrighted material and I assume the other devs have as well. Even if we wanted to, we could not restore the files available on 9/2/2018 (or 2/9/2018 depending upon your date locale). We would welcome working with any of the publishing companies to help them convert their material into a format OpenSong can read. But, as SvA mentioned, so far the publishers have not expressed an interest in providing an OpenSong-compatible format.
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
Notice in your screenshot that we had referenced removing NLT due to a
communication we received from Tyndale, the copyright owner for NLT,
because they did not want us distributing their copyrighted material. After
discussion between the OpenSong devs, we decided the appropriate course of
action would be to err on the side of caution and remove all
non-public-domain translations. We did not intend to infringe on anyone's
copyrighted intellectual property, just like we would not want someone to
infringe on ours. Additionally, OpenSong is currently uses the GPLv2
license. None of these works were compatible with the GPLv2 license. We
really had no other choice but to remove these files.
I have deleted all copies I had of the copyrighted material and I assume
the other devs have as well. Even if we wanted to, we could not restore the
files available on 9/2/2018 (or 2/9/2018 depending upon your date locale).
We would welcome working with any of the publishing companies to help them
convert their material into a format OpenSong can read. But, as SvA
mentioned, so far the publishers have not expressed an interest in
providing an OpenSong-compatible format.
In 2018 Opensong offered the following English versions of the Bible: Amplified, CEV, ESV, KJV, The Message, NASB, NIV, NKJV, Modern KJV, and New RSV. Now, they only show two versions KJV and one other. Why?
While developers understandably would not have kept copies, am pretty sure churches who actively use OpenSong would still have copies somewhere.
Well, it's issues with copyright.
I don't know, where you looked to find "KJV and one other".
On our website there is just KJV in the English section. But there is a link to Zefania XML which has 50 in their English section.
Granted, these are not the modern mainstream ones, but it is impossible to legally offer them for download, and for an open source application virtually impossible to get publishers to offer some way of obtaining licenses at any cost.
Last edit: SvA 2025-02-18
Please look at attached screenshot.
On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM SvA sva-de@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
Notice in your screenshot that we had referenced removing NLT due to a communication we received from Tyndale, the copyright owner for NLT, because they did not want us distributing their copyrighted material. After discussion between the OpenSong devs, we decided the appropriate course of action would be to err on the side of caution and remove all non-public-domain translations. We did not intend to infringe on anyone's copyrighted intellectual property, just like we would not want someone to infringe on ours. Additionally, OpenSong is currently uses the GPLv2 license. None of these works were compatible with the GPLv2 license. We really had no other choice but to remove these files.
I have deleted all copies I had of the copyrighted material and I assume the other devs have as well. Even if we wanted to, we could not restore the files available on 9/2/2018 (or 2/9/2018 depending upon your date locale). We would welcome working with any of the publishing companies to help them convert their material into a format OpenSong can read. But, as SvA mentioned, so far the publishers have not expressed an interest in providing an OpenSong-compatible format.
Thank you!
bill
On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM Ed Palmer swampcat@users.sourceforge.net
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