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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