Bug#338077: ITP: sword-text-kvj -- King James Version with Strongs Numbers and Morphology

["Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto@familiasanchez.net>]

Quoting Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu>:

> On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 08:51:26PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>
> > * License         : Public Domain
> >   Description     : King James Version with Strongs Numbers and Morphology
>
> > This is the King James Version of the Holy Bible (also known as the
> > Authorized Version) with embedded Strong's Numbers. The rights to
> > the base text are held by the Crown of England.
>
> What "rights" are you speaking about? The text certainly is far too
> old for any copyright to hold and you yourself tag it as "public
> domain". So what "right" is being spoken of here?

Lionel,

Please don't CC submit@bugs.debian.org when replying to a bug.

Based on my understanding [0], the Crown of England maintains the 
perogative to
authorize printings of the KJV text in Great Britain.  It is in the public
domain everywhere else.

-Roberto

[0]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version_of_the_Bible#Copyright_status
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Roberto C. Sanchez
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