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

[Bastian Germann]

Am 04.03.21 um 21:07 schrieb Teus Benschop:
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 at 20:56, Bastian Germann <bastiangermann at fishpost.de 
> <mailto:bastiangermann at fishpost.de>> wrote:
> 
>     This was discussed in #338077 and found to be okay (because it is a
>     Commonwealth problem only). This is not the problem here. It is the
>     editions by CrossWire that are non-free.
> 
> 
> If an earlier version was okayed by Crosswire to be put in the public 
> domain, and to be distributed in Debian, even if later on Crosswire 
> removed that earlier version from their repository, it looks to me that 
> Debian can continue to distribute that earlier version.

As already mentioned, the Debian package is flawed in every released 
version. It was never put in the public domain from what I can see but 
is freely redistributable (not including edited versions).

If we want to keep a KJV module in main, we can replace the KJV with 
ebible's KJVCPB module, which comes with source. Then we have to think 
about the version number. We can also move kjv to non-free and introduce 
a new package sword-text-kjvcpb, which would not make it into bullseye 
obviously.