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Web Download of other Bible versions

By mamin on 14 February 2007
Just as we have a Theme Gallery, we could have a page with different Bible versions. Both download and upload would be useful. The upload could be to a reserved area so that the files could be checked before making them available to others. I have produced the Modern King James Version (royalties free) and will make it available as soon as it is properly verified. Blessings, Maurizio
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Re: Web Download of other Bible versions

By raoul on 18 February 2007

The reason we removed the NIV version of the Bbible from openlp.org in the first place was because of Zondervan's strict copyright. If other versions of the Bible could be made available to openlp.org that would be great, but a lot of them also have copyright issues.

Now, the same would apply to Bibles uploaded to a Bible Version page; they would have to be public domain, or some other license.

What is the license of the New KJV? 

Re: Web Download of other Bible versions

By BobMuk on 19 February 2007
I am a fan of E-Sword.....This is also free. wouldnt it be easier to be able to link the two progs. That would give you about 25 different english bibles...& numerous other resources.

Re: Web Download of other Bible versions

By raoul on 20 February 2007
That's a feature request we have had before, and I think we'll be including it in openlp.org 1.2. For the moment however, I'm afraid you'll have to use the bible creator or the existing bibles.

Re: Web Download of other Bible versions

By mamin on 26 February 2007
There are many Bible versions that are royalties free. They can be downloaded from the e-Sword web site, and then converted into .txt files with the e-Sword program. Finally, with a small data manipulation they can be formatted for the database conversion program provided by openlp.org. At the moment I am not able to get the database conversion program to work with the file I have created. The program starts processing the .txt file, but it freezes. We are working on this last step. I will share the details as soon as the approach is working. Blessings, Maurizio