[darcs-users] Open Source Hebrew Roots Bible; darcs the right software to use?

[Ted Walther]

On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 11:17:24AM -0700, Jason Dagit wrote:
>On 4/3/06, Ted Walther <krooger at debian.org> wrote:
>> Hello.  I'm starting up a project to correct the translation of the
>> King James Bible to better fit the underlying Hebrew language, and
>> release it under some free license, such as Creative Commons or GFDL.
>> Maybe dual license.
>
>Can you copyright derivative works of your bible?  I'm not a lawyer,
>but I know derivative works tend to have rules at least here in the US.

You can modify a public domain work and copyright it.  Heck, they even
put page numbers on publicly available legislation and copyright THAT.
(c.f. Westlaw)

>If that is the case, I'd recommend using a wiki instead of version
>control (depending on the wiki you can limit edit access).  If you
>really don't want to use a wiki then darcs is probably very close to
>ideal.

My project is unique in that the number of lines shouldn't change,
although to harmonize some things from the Septuagint some verses may be
added, e.g. the last few verse of the book of Job.

Each line is prefixed with a verse reference, and a line may change, but
will never be deleted.

>I think the various darcs web front ends do a better job of annotation.
>Specifically, darcs.cgi is probably close to what you want in that
>department.

So I can hack it up?  I'll need a listing of all changesets that touch a
particular line.  And if I add lines, will that be tracked.  Let's say I
want to view changes to Lk13:2, but I've added a couple verses to Jb42;
will annotate follow that change backward?

Also, because I want to run GNU wdiff, how do I do that?  Maybe I'll
have to write my own thing simple software for this simple project.

Ted

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