You would not need anyone's approval to start a commercial magazine for esword.
e-Sword is a registered trademark:
- Rick has attempted to file lawsuits based on trademark and copyright infringement, for e-Sword related things^1;
- He has expressed disapproval of third parties selling resources for e-Sword;
- He has indicated that he won't tolerate the monetization of e-Sword;
A third party seminary graduate runs a company that makes and sells unofficial Logos training materials without paying Logos (not talking about Mike Morris).
There are a couple of third parties that provide Logos training. So long as they don't claim to be official Logos training people, or call their program "Camp Logos", or anything that could be construed as "Camp Logos", or generate complaints to either Bob nor Mike Morris, nobody at Logos will be concerned about their activities.
Rick, OTOH, has a very different approach, and philosophy about Biblical software. One that is not as tolerant about "competing" non-gratis training.
^1. These lawsuits did not go to trial due to lack of jurisdiction, defendant was unable to be served, or the lawsuit was filed too late.
jonathon