[Linux4christians] Re: NIV Bible for Linux

[David Aikema]

On 8/10/06, Karl Kleinpaste <karl at charcoal.com> wrote:

> With all that said, and finally to respond to the original question...
>
> Bible Gateway (http://www.biblegateway.com) has a large number of
> translations available to read, and in fact to download completely.
> They even explicitly offer a "read the bible in a year" plan, which
> arranges for you to suck down a few chapters at a time.
>
> Among those they offer are NASB NIV NIrV NLT NKJV and Amp.
>
> You can see where this is going, can't you?  Sure you can.
>
> Surf http://www.charcoal.com/~karl/sword/ and find the "scripts" link
> near the bottom: You will find yourself facing a README plus some
> downloadable scripts and utility files which automate the process of
> picking up a complete Bible text from Bible Gateway and grinding it
> into Sword format.  I've been using GnomeSword with several of these
> versions for a number of months now.

Does this violation the specified NIV copyright policy though (
http://www.biblegateway.com/versions/?action=getVersionInfo&vid=31#copy
)?  I tend to think that it does.

Dave