Ubuntu
sword-text-kjv package

  1. Bug #1089053
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1089053

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Silas S. Brown (ssb22) wrote : Re: [Bug 1089053] Re: UK copyright law makes this package illegal to distribute

Thanks, but Crosswire is in Arizona, which is not in the UK, so
Crosswire don't have to worry about UK-specific copyright laws.

The distributors of Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd, are based in the UK.
So it's Ubuntu that needs to get the permission, not Crosswire.

It might be possible for Crosswire to obtain permission "in advance"
for UK downstream distributors of their text, but they'd probably
count that as a "feature request" rather than a bug.

It would also depend if CUP are willing to grant transferrable permissions.
A transferrable permission would be best anyway, otherwise Ubuntu may
have to move this package to "non-free". But at least having a
permission of any kind is better than having none at all. I would
imagine Canonical Ltd would have more resources than Crosswire to
sort this out.