Re:Bible Semantic Search
by lrvick on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @02:13AM
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Just remember the NIV translation of The Bible is property of Harper Collins, who is also amusingly the publisher of many tabloids and The Satanic Bible.
I used to distribute a BibleGateway-ripped copy of NIV as a plugin for the open source GnomeSword project and managed to upset both Harper Collins and the open source scholar community. It was absurd and I refused to stop. I dared them to sue me for sharing the Bible as open source... the headlines would write themselves.
FWIIW they never took the bait, but expect empty threat Cease and Desist letters from the Harper Collins legal team.
Re:Bible Semantic Search
by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @06:05AM
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I thought NIV was Zondervan, bought (as you intimate) by News International (Rupert Murdoch). What I hadn't realised is Harper Collins owns Zondervan and Murdoch controls that.
I used to distribute a BibleGateway-ripped copy of NIV as a plugin for the open source GnomeSword project and managed to upset both Harper Collins and the open source scholar community. It was absurd and I refused to stop. I dared them to sue me for sharing the Bible as open source... the headlines would write themselves.
FWIIW they never took the bait, but expect empty threat Cease and Desist letters from the Harper Collins legal team.