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authorized distribution of UBS 3
Bob Kraft writes...
>UBS 3 (and its predecessors) is a copyrighted text controlled
>by the United Bible Societies (UBS). Permission has been granted
>by UBS for an electronic form of this text to be distributed
>under certain conditions (non commercial use, etc.). I doubt
>that UBS has agreed to let the text circulate uncontrolled on
>BBS or ListServers, and hope that those who use such text will
>check to see whether they are expected to register in some way
>or another (e.g. the CCAT distribution agreement permits free
>copying in return for sending CCAT a signed user agreement, so
>that if any questions are raised by UBS or anyone else, there
>will be an accountability trail). If there is no requirement to
>register, I suspect it is a bootleg text. So what? Well, in the
>long run abuse of the agreements that have been established and
>have been working fairly well thus far may lead to a curtailing
>of some of the cooperation and freedom enjoyed thus far. Don't
>bite the hands that feed. (The same observations apply to BHS.)
There is a requirement to register the UBS. The following
information comes from the documentation to Greek module of the Online Bible.
en agape,
Bob
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ONLINE GREEK:
GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO ALL GREEK TEXTS
Maurice A. Robinson, Ph.D.
Department of Biblical Studies and Languages
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
7521 Matherly Drive
Wake Forest, North Carolina 27587
(919) 556-8337
1 August 1991
FREEWARE DECLARATION FOR ALL FILES EXCEPT NESTLE 26/UBS 3:
Jesus stated in John 2:16, "Do not make my Father's house a
house of merchandise" (mh poieite ton oikon tou patrov mou
oikon emporiou). The following Greek New Testament data files
are released in the Online Bible format as Freeware by the
copyright holders and may NOT be sold for commercial profit:
Stephens 1550 Textus Receptus
Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus
1991 Byzantine/Majority Textform
A small copying/distribution charge may be assessed for
these Greek New Testament files as distributed with or as
a supplement to the Online Bible, but even this fee must be
kept to a strict minimum.
The legal owners of these Greek New Testament files retain for
themselves all privileges of copyright including all rights to
printed publication as well as storage in any database or
information-retrieval system. Specific copyright information
is prefixed to the appropriate sections of this documentation,
as well as in the file COPYRITE.DAT which accompanies each
Online Bible Greek program and is displayed as part of its
respective opening screen.
Publishers of commercial products are specifically prohibited
from including these files within a computer program,
database, information retrieval system, or other package
intended for commercial gain without making prior licensing
arrangements with the copyright holders.
[...]
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BEGIN CCAT USER DECLARATION
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N26/UBS3 Greek Text Release 3.0 - 1 August 1991
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CENTER FOR COMPUTER ANALYSIS OF TEXTS (CCAT)
University of Pennsylvania
Box 36, College Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6303
Telephone (215) 898-1597/5827
USER DECLARATION
The Greek text of the New Testament according to the Nestle-
Aland 26th edition/UBS 3rd edition included herein as part of
the Online Bible software program has been extensively adapted,
altered, proofed, and corrected by Maurice A. Robinson and
Larry Pierce from a text conforming to that distributed by the
External Services Division of the Center for Computer Analysis
of Texts (CCAT) of the University of Pennsylvania.
According to the license agreement issued by the CCAT, "these
texts are only available for NON-COMMERCIAL personal/ scholarly
and educational use, with the understanding that CCAT needs to
maintain records of those to whom copies are distributed." Each
recipient is therefore requested to "please sign the USER
DECLARATION" given below, "and return it [to CCAT] for our files.
An electronic copy . . . is included on your diskettes and should
be used if you transmit any of this electronic material to anyone
else." All recipients of the Online Bible Nestle 26/UBS 3 text
should therefore notify the CCAT in accordance with their license
agreement, using the form provided below. No further fee or
consideration is required by the CCAT for this declaration.
The CCAT additionally offers diskette-based ASCII texts for the
Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, the Vulgate, the Targums, the
Revised Standard Version, the King James Version, and the
Apocrypha (KJV or RSV), along with other Biblically- related
files. Interested parties may contact the CCAT for a list of
texts currently offered by them.
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Telephone (215) 898-1597/5827
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and permission has been obtained from copyright holders of
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Text: GNT (Nestle 26/UBS3 Greek New Testament)
Format: IBM/DOS Software
The Greek New Testament, Nestle 26th edition
(c)1979, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart
The UBS Greek New Testament, 3rd edition
(c) 1975, United Bible Societies, London
The CCAT Greek New Testament materials have been extensively
adapted, altered, proofed and corrected for non-profit
personal/scholarly and educational use in the Online
Bible format by Maurice Robinson and Larry Pierce.
The present material was obtained from the legal owner of
the Online Bible material: Timnathserah, Inc., R.R.#2,
West Montrose, Ontario N0B 2V0, CANADA
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N26/UBS3 Greek Text Release 3.0 - 1 August 1991
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