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

[Fr Cyrille]

Le 04/03/2021 à 20:56, Bastian Germann a écrit :
> Am 04.03.21 um 20:33 schrieb 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.
>
> 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.
>
>> Earlier faults in history are continuing to harass us and limit the 
>> word of
>> God somehow.
> In the 17th century there was not even the concept of copyright. When 
> copyright was invented, the English Crown retrospectively applied that 
> concept to the KJV.
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