Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>]

On 24/07/2006 12:38, JAMES CHRISTIAN READ wrote:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=89078&package_id=93753
>
> The above link is probably more useful than the previous 
> link I posted as this one takes you directly to hebrew 
> texts. 
>
> The aleppo, the WLC and a modern hebrew text are all there.
>
>   
Thanks for these links. But as the Aleppo text is based on the 
copyrighted Mechon Mamre there is clearly no guarantee that these texts 
are in fact free of copyright encumbrances. As for the "Biblia 
Hebraica", the French notes to this say (when the character encoding is 
changed to "Western (ISO-8859-1)"): "You are not the owner of this text. 
It belongs to humanity." (So far, so good.) "You are authorised to copy 
freely the biblical text and use it according to your needs, such as for 
an example or a citation, including in a commercial publication; but it 
must not contain only the biblical text. ... You are not authorised to 
SELL an edition of the biblical text or of a part of the text." (But the 
transcribers aren't the owners of this text either, so what gives them 
the right to authorise and not authorise what can be done with it?)

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