In the first he deals primarily with the issues around Zhubert's Re:Greek. In the process providing much (though speculative) light on the murky world of commercial Bible publication. The second homes in on copyright applied to the Bible and translations of the Bible.
These are both fine works. I suggest you all read them, and I suggest they both get listed in the next Biblical Studies Carnival.
After all the discussion of copyright and of the practicalities of funding Bible Sosiety work has settled there are practical issues left open.
- What is the legal status of MorphGNT?
- If it is street legal then other projects can use it.
- If not, then "we" need an open source project to produce a good legal morph analysed Greet text
- Can something be done to produce an equivalent for the Hebrew Bible? (Here as Peter points out there are no legal complications with eclectic texts MorphMT could be simply based on The Westminster Leningrad Codex (see its licence document).
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The Bible societies do what the churches have told them. They have a charter according to which they operate.
To change this charter is up to the churches.
And I tell you this:
If you want a free text, produce a free text!
The monopoly of the NA is not a good situation in many respects.
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Wieland Willker, at
March 31, 2009 7:52 AM
Thanks for the links.
The morphological analysis for your MorphMT has already been done at Westminster. And I know that Kirk Lowery who is in charge is in principle in favour of open source. I don't know exactly how much of their work his team are prepared to put into the public domain, given that they probably charge for releasing it to commercial Bible software companies. See this page for more details.
Eep Talstra of the Free University of Amsterdam did an alternative morphological parse of the Hebrew Bible, but I'm not sure of the status of this project especially as Talstra is now collaborating with Westminster.
