On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Josh Coates wrote:
I personally can't find anywhere where it claims to be the 1830 version?
i can't find any reference to that either. i wonder what version it is? i'd have to do some more homework to figure that one out.
From a quick search, it seems to be the 1981 text ("pure and delightsome",
"joy of our whole army", etc).
a) I tend to agree with the wikisource discussion that the minor changes in the 1981 text are not substantial enough to warrant a new copyright (especially since many of them apparently are simply reversions to the original manuscript).
b) I may not trust Mr. Dibb or wikisource discussions to say that the text is in the public domain, but I definitely trust Michael Hart. He goes well out of his way to ensure that anything on PG is public domain (or clearly marked otherwise), so if it's on PG, I'm convinced. (And it looks like Mr. Dibb just got his copy from PG, too.)
Maybe you can write to the Church's IP division and ask them if what they say about the text being in the public domain is true? You can let us know what you find out :-)
~ Ross
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