[darcs-users] Open Source Hebrew Roots Bible; darcs the right software to use?

[Patrick McFarland]

On Monday 03 April 2006 14:17, Jason Dagit wrote:
> On 4/3/06, Ted Walther <krooger at debian.org> wrote:
> > Hello.  I'm starting up a project to correct the translation of the King
> > James Bible to better fit the underlying Hebrew language, and release it
> > under some free license, such as Creative Commons or GFDL. Maybe dual
> > license.
>
> Can you copyright derivative works of your bible?  I'm not a lawyer,
> but I know derivative works tend to have rules at least here in the
> US.

The King James Bible, while almost insulting to bibles by calling it a bible, 
is not copyrighted and is a public domain work. Remember, it was translated 
about 200-300 years ago (maybe more?).

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