NIV

According to the Zondervan(the licensor of the NIV) website, permission must be obtained in order to quote the NIV in its entirity, which is what Scriptures would be doing. It also appears, accoring to the Fees section, that they charge a fee based on the comercial or non-comercial nature of the project as well as the amount of the text being used. Since the entirity would be quoted the fee would be the highest non-commercial fee they charge.

I also came across a couple threads on the GoBible forums which detail some of the licensing information they came up against when it came to licensing the NIV. Scriptures would also be in the same position as GoBible and $10,000.00 plus $10.00 per copy is just too much to justify the work that would go into distributing a NIV bible. When the import tool is complete if people wanted to make their own ThML version and import it themselves, they are welcome too, but the Scripture program will not link to or publish a NIV bible.

Having said that, I’ve made a formal inquiry to Zondervan to see if there have been any changes to their licensing since the GoBible request was made, but I’m not very hopeful. I’ll update this post when I hear back from them.