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
For the (binary) sword module a "General public license for distribution
for any purpose" is granted, which does not explicitly allow
distributions of modified versions. The more verbose license text is:
"Any copyright that might be obtained for this effort is held by
CrossWire Bible Society (c) 2003-2016 and CrossWire Bible Society hereby
grants a general public license to use this text for any purpose."
"Use for any purpose" does not necessarily contain modified redistribution.
The source was never in Debian versions before 2.10-1. It was recently
published by mistake and it was assumed that the license for the binary
module also applies to the source. Even if it did, it would still not be
DFSG-compliant because the distribution of modified versions is not allowed.
The binary module would be perfectly fine for Debian's non-free section.
I propose to move the last source-less version there. There is an issue
with the version number being 2.9.1-4, which has an additional ".1"
compared with the upstream version. This should also be fixed with the
non-free upload, so the new non-free version should be "2.10+really2.9-1".
I prepared this suggestion at
https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-crosswire-team/sword-text-kjv/-/tree/debian/latest
which should be force-pushed to master (as well as the upstream and
pristine-tar branches to their 2.9.1 versions) if we go this route.
