[pkg-crosswire-devel] Bug#984526: Bug#984526: sword-text-kjv: Package is non-free

[Teus Benschop]

Here is an article on the copyright issues with regard to the KJV.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version#Copyright_status

It says, among many other things that "The Authorized Version is in the
public domain in most of the world. However, in the United Kingdom, the
right to print, publish and distribute it is a royal prerogative..."

It's a bit messy, it looks. Reading over it, I am not sure that the KJV is
free to be distributed in Debian.

Earlier faults in history are continuing to harass us and limit the word of
God somehow.

Met vriendelijke groeten,
With kind regards,

Teus Benschop
https://freesoftwareconsultants.nl
https://bibledit.org


On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 at 20:12, Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto at debian.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 06:04:13PM +0100, Bastian Germann wrote:
> > Source: sword-text-kjv
> > Severity: serious
> > Version: 2.10-1
> >
> > sword-text-kjv is non-free in all of its versions. The details are in
> > https://gitlab.com/crosswire-bible-society/kjv/-/commit/0203c85010a9a
> >
> I read the thread (and looked at your changes).  This seems to a bit of
> a tangled mess.  It will be a few days before I can take a closer look
> and provide my thoughts.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Roberto
>
> --
> Roberto C. Sánchez
>
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