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Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Thu Jul 2 18:32:02 UTC 2009


On 07/02/2009 02:10 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 12:43 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> I'm not sure how distributable the KJV is or isnt'
> 
> It's been out of copyright for some little time, now. Probably.(*)
> 
> * Of course, one could potentially make some quite interesting legal
> arguments about the author credit, and whether said author counts as
> 'living' within the terms of copyright laws that grant copyright during
> the lifetime of the author...

Translations are generally considered to by copyrighted, even when the
original work may not be.

Regardless, we're not including religious texts in Fedora as content.
Period.

~spot




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