Package: bible-kjv
Severity: minor
The `debian/copyright' file says:
: The copyright for the King James Version text of the Bible is expired since
: the translation was done in 1611 under King James the first of Great
: Britain.
But `bible.rawtext' doesn't contain the 1611 text. For example,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version
gives 1Co13:1-3 in both the 1611 and 1769 versions:
[1611] 1. Though I speake with the tongues of men & of Angels, and
haue not charity, I am become as sounding brasse or a
tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I haue the gift of prophesie,
and vnderstand all mysteries and all knowledge: and though I
haue all faith, so that I could remooue mountaines, and haue
no charitie, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestowe all my
goods to feede the poore, and though I giue my body to bee
burned, and haue not charitie, it profiteth me nothing.
[1769] 1. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and
have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a
tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy,
and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I
have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have
not charity, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods
to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and
have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
The latter is identical to the current text in the package.
This doesn't change the copyright analysis in the `debian/copyright'.
Though, in fact, with the incorrect date, that analysis is clearly
wrong: since the 1611 text predates the Statute of Anne (1710) by more
than 28 years, it was evidently never subject to copyright in the first
place.
(It's possible that instead the text is Parris's 1760 Cambridge edition,
rather than Blayney's 1769 Oxford edition. Wikipedia tells me that both
1611 and 1769 editions included the Apocrypha, which are conspicuously
missing from this package; I don't know whether this was also included
in the Cambridge text.)
-- [mdw]
