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



On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 17:04 +0300, 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?

Not to mention the dire sanctions against derivative works of the
Revelation (from chapter 22):

  18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of
this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the
plagues that are written in this book:
  19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this
prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the
holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Life is like a sewer:
what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

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