Re: Re: KJV Bible - Crown Copyright in UK [was: Bug#338077: ITP: sword-text-kvj -- King James Version with Strongs Numbers and Morphology]

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Re: KJV Bible - Crown Copyright in UK

2005-11-12 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 10:52:20AM -0600, Christofer C. Bell wrote: On 11/8/05, Lionel Elie Mamane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 06:03:45PM +, W. Borgert wrote: According to Christian belief, the bible is the word of God. According to Nietzsche (in 1882), God is dead.

Re: KJV Bible - Crown Copyright in UK [was: Bug#338077: ITP: sword-text-kvj -- King James Version with Strongs Numbers and Morphology]

2005-11-11 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On 11/8/05, Lionel Elie Mamane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 06:03:45PM +, W. Borgert wrote: On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 06:16:52PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: This makes the KJV of the bible non-free in GB and probably even illegal to distribute at all in GB,

Re: KJV Bible - Crown Copyright in UK [was: Bug#338077: ITP: sword-text-kvj -- King James Version with Strongs Numbers and Morphology]

2005-11-11 Thread Andrew Donnellan
And your argument is flawed. God himself didn't directly author any part of the Bible at all. ;-) According to Christian doctrine, God *inspired* various people to write the *entire Bible*. According to Jewish doctrine, the same holds true for the Torah. The KJV of the Bible was

Re: KJV Bible - Crown Copyright in UK [was: Bug#338077: ITP: sword-text-kvj -- King James Version with Strongs Numbers and Morphology]

2005-11-10 Thread Stuart Yeates
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: If there is still an issue, I suppose we could start a non-GB section :-) If we do, then maybe it should contain a copy of peter pan, which has a clause in the law such that it never expires[1]. cheers stuart [1] http://www.gosh.org/about_us/peterpan/copyright.html

Re: KJV Bible - Crown Copyright in UK and Commonwealth

2005-11-09 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 05:43:33PM +1100, Andrew Donnellan wrote: Does the crown copyright on the KJV affect other Commonwealth countries e.g. Australia? I don't know. If it hasn't been abrogated by the Australian legislative body between independence and present, it does. I suppose that

Re: KJV Bible - Crown Copyright in UK and Commonwealth

2005-11-09 Thread Andrew Donnellan
I believe section 5 is basically repealing the Imperial Copyright Act 1911. I think section 8a(2) is saying that you can do anything you want with Crown works and still not infringe, on the condition that there are no other copyright holders, e.g. I can copy the KJV, but not government works

KJV Bible - Crown Copyright in UK [was: Bug#338077: ITP: sword-text-kvj -- King James Version with Strongs Numbers and Morphology]

2005-11-08 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
( Please mail followups to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-legal@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:13:42AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Quoting Lionel Elie Mamane [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 08:51:26PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez

KJV Bible - Crown Copyright in UK [was: Bug#338077: ITP: sword-text-kvj -- King James Version with Strongs Numbers and Morphology]

2005-11-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 06:16:52PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: ( Please mail followups to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-legal@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:13:42AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Quoting Lionel Elie Mamane

Re: KJV Bible - Crown Copyright in UK [was: Bug#338077: ITP: sword-text-kvj -- King James Version with Strongs Numbers and Morphology]

2005-11-08 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 06:03:45PM +, W. Borgert wrote: On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 06:16:52PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: This makes the KJV of the bible non-free in GB and probably even illegal to distribute at all in GB, unless the Crown gives a blanket license for electronic

Re: KJV Bible - Crown Copyright in UK [was: Bug#338077: ITP: sword-text-kvj -- King James Version with Strongs Numbers and Morphology]

2005-11-08 Thread W. Borgert
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 06:16:52PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: This makes the KJV of the bible non-free in GB and probably even illegal to distribute at all in GB, unless the Crown gives a blanket license for electronic distribution. Does it? ... Please investigate this before uploading

Re: KJV Bible - Crown Copyright in UK

2005-11-08 Thread Florian Weimer
* Lionel Elie Mamane: Please investigate this before uploading to Debian. Or alternatively, depend on the bible-kjv-text package, which already is in main. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KJV Bible - Crown Copyright in UK

2005-11-08 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 07:52:26PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Lionel Elie Mamane: Please investigate this before uploading to Debian. Or alternatively, depend on the bible-kjv-text package, which already is in main. I'd rather we had a good investigation on this, that would be valid

Re: KJV Bible - Crown Copyright in UK [was: Bug#338077: ITP: sword-text-kvj -- King James Version with Strongs Numbers and Morphology]

2005-11-08 Thread W. Borgert
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 07:23:28PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 06:03:45PM +, W. Borgert wrote: According to Christian belief, the bible is the word of God. According to Nietzsche (in 1882), God is dead. So the author of the bible is dead since at least 120

Re: KJV Bible - Crown Copyright in UK

2005-11-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 07:52:26PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Lionel Elie Mamane: Please investigate this before uploading to Debian. Or alternatively, depend on the bible-kjv-text package, which already is in main. The text included in bible-kjv-text is not SWORD-compatible. I

Re: KJV Bible - Crown Copyright in UK [was: Bug#338077: ITP: sword-text-kvj -- King James Version with Strongs Numbers and Morphology]

2005-11-08 Thread Andrew Donnellan
Does the crown copyright on the KJV affect other Commonwealth countries e.g. Australia? Down here we have a Crown copyright law and that covers *some* government material, including electoral information, the NSW Higher School Certificate and a lot of other things. Would British Crown Copyright