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

[Simon Chappell]

On 4/3/06, Jason Dagit <dagit at codersbase.com> wrote:
> On 4/3/06, Patrick McFarland <diablod3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The King James Bible, while almost insulting to bibles by calling it a bible,
> > is not copyrighted and is a public domain work.
>
> Right, which is why I thought it was weird to copyright a derivative
> of it.  Again, I'm not a lawyer, perhaps that sort of thing is just
> fine.

The original poster just stated that they wanted to licence the
resultant derivative work. IANAL, but I'm sure if they add content to
a public domain work, that their additions would be eligible for
copyright consideration, even if the base work was not. Then the
combination of the public domain base work (i.e. the KJV) and their
changes (copyrighted) would be released under a licence.

Not how I'd do it, but it sounds legit to my non-lawyer thinking. I'd
just make my changes public-domain and publish the combination under a
name that helped people understand that it was a derivative of the
KJV. KJV++ anyone? KJV 2.0 perhaps?

Out of interest, will you be accepting volunteers? My Hebrew is
terrible without a copy of Strongs to hand, but I would be delighted
to help with proof-reading.

> Jason

Simon

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