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

Debian Bug report logs - #447712
Package could be non-free in the United Kingdom

Reported by: Enrico Zini <[email protected]>

Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:18:01 UTC

Severity: normal

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Subject: Re: Bug#447712: Package could be non-free in the United Kingdom
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:36:09 +0100
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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 -- Matthew Vernon MA VetMB LGSM MRCVS Farm Animal Epidemiology and Informatics Unit Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~mcv21/

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Debian Bug report logs - #447712 Package could be non-free in the United Kingdom

Debian Bug report logs - #447712
Package could be non-free in the United Kingdom