Re: Bug#447712: Package could be non-free in the United Kingdom
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <[email protected]>
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Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> Ben Hutchings wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> this is clearly non-free material. Can we please
> - remove those parts from the distribution
> - send somebody to ask upstream to fix this license?
No. This is an old text, so it is no (more) copyrightable.
Any restriction is (legally) void... PLONG!!
"(legally) void"
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ciao
cate