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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Paul Chandler wrote: > > 4) I'm sorry if I inadvertently recommended a "defective pirated" > edition of the Stuttgart Vulgate. I was not aware of that, and would > be interested to know more. Investigating just now I see that > VulSearch takes the Stuttgart text from the main UK Sourceforge mirror > at the University of Kent, which does not immediately put one in mind > of piracy. What should we know? -- Paul Chandler > > A Bob Kraft post to this list in 1998 explains the question of piracy: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind9806&L=MEDIEVAL-RELIGION&P=R5705&I=-3 In short, the German Bible Society (GBS) and the United Bible Societies (UBS) hold the rights to the text. U Penn's CCAT obtained a limited license to distribute it for non -commercial use. The text found its way into commercial products, and, as of 1998 at least, GBS withdrew permission to distribute the text without a CCAT user agreement. OK, it's not like using The Pirate Bay to locate a torrent for downloading the latest "Pirate of the Caribbean" movie. Phil Feller ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html