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

2017-09-03 Thread Rachel Atkins
Y'all allow spam through bible apps? Sent from my iPhone

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), "G

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 orig

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 i

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

2005-11-10 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 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 under

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 Aust

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 doc

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

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

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

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 [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 uploadin

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 di

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 Mama

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. Sanc