Re: Bug#447712: Package could be non-free in the United Kingdom

[Matthew Vernon <matthew@sel.cam.ac.uk>]

On 23 Oct 2007, at 15:04, Lars Wirzenius wrote:

> ti, 2007-10-23 kello 12:35 +0100, Matthew Vernon kirjoitti:
> > The Authorized Version of the Bible isn't covered by Copyright in
> > the
> > conventional sense. The Queen's Printer (currently Cambridge
> > University Press) has an exclusive commercial right to print the AV
> > (and the BCP, but that's not relevant here) in England
>
> Would not a restriction on commercial use still be against the  
> DFSG, and
> the package therefore be problematic?

It's not quite that simple. You can't print and sell Bibles in the UK  
(unless you are CUP or OUP). Would a bomb-making text in Debian be  
non-free because the UK forbids you to print and sell it?

Matthew

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Farm Animal Epidemiology and Informatics Unit
Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge
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