On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 06:03:45PM +0000, 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 distribution. Does it? > ... >> Please investigate this before uploading to Debian. > 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 years. How can the copyright > still hold? Your argument is flawed: G-od is the direct author of the *original* version of *part* the Bible, namely the Pentateuch. The KJV is a derivative work made in the early 1600s. More seriously, the copyright still holds because of a special clause for it in UK's 1998 Copyright Act (and all earlier copyright acts): The Crown has (in the UK) a permanent copyright on it that will never expire. (But Parliament can obviously pass new legislation that abrogates it.) -- Lionel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
