I don't know how LICENSE of the app-dicts/sword-* modules has originally been determined, but going by the information in the mods.d/*.conf files included with the individual zipballs, I arrive at a different result for several of them. See my findings below. Disclaimer: IANAL, TINLA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The following 110 packages have "DistributionLicense=Public Domain": sword-abbott sword-acv sword-alb sword-aleppo sword-amtract sword-arasvd sword-armeastern sword-armwestern sword-asv sword-barnes sword-bashautin sword-bbe sword-burjudson sword-byz sword-cbc sword-clarke sword-cro sword-czebkr sword-daily sword-darby sword-diaglott sword-drc sword-dtn sword-dutkant sword-dutsvv sword-easton sword-esperanto sword-finbiblia sword-finney sword-finpr sword-frecrampon sword-fremartin sword-fresegond sword-gerelb1871 sword-gerelb1905 sword-gerlut1545 sword-heretics sword-hitchcock sword-hnv sword-hunkar sword-institutes sword-isbe sword-itadio sword-itarive sword-jfb sword-josephus sword-jps sword-jst sword-kjvd sword-klv sword-klven_iklingon sword-klviklingon_en sword-lightfoot sword-luther sword-mak sword-manxgaelic sword-mhc sword-mhcc sword-montgomery sword-murdock sword-nave sword-norsk sword-orthodoxy sword-packard sword-peshitta sword-pilgrim sword-pnt sword-practice sword-rkjnt sword-rnkjv sword-rotherham sword-rst sword-rusmakarij sword-rwebster sword-saoa sword-scofield sword-scotsgaelic sword-sme sword-smith sword-sparv sword-spasev sword-spavnt sword-spurious sword-strongsgreek sword-strongshebrew sword-swahili sword-tagalog sword-tcr sword-tdavid sword-tfg sword-tisch sword-torrey sword-tr sword-tsk sword-twenty sword-tyndale sword-ukjv sword-ukrainian sword-vulgate sword-vulgate_hebps sword-web sword-webster sword-webstersdict sword-wesley sword-weymouth sword-whnu sword-wlc sword-wulfila sword-wycliffe sword-ylt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- These 10 have an explicitly defined license in "DistributionLicense": sword-chamorro -> freedist sword-common -> free-noncomm sword-dan -> free-noncomm sword-frebbb -> free-noncomm sword-gersch -> free-noncomm sword-greekhebrew -> free-noncomm sword-hebrewgreek -> free-noncomm sword-jubilee2000 -> free-noncomm sword-robinson -> CC-BY-SA-3.0 sword-uma -> free-noncomm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For 22 packages, there seems to be no license information at all. Presumably, we have to use LICENSE="all-rights-reserved" for them, plus RESTRICT="mirror bindist": sword-abs_essay_goodsam_swb sword-br_en sword-bulveren sword-bwe sword-chincvs sword-chincvt sword-chiun sword-chiuns sword-est sword-family sword-frecrl sword-geneva sword-geneva1599 sword-hebmodern sword-icelandic sword-korean sword-la_en sword-latvian sword-maori sword-romcor sword-umgreek sword-xhosa ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Another 11 packages have: DistributionLicense=Copyrighted; Permission to distribute granted to CrossWire Permission has been granted to CrossWire, but not to us, therefore we *don't* have permission to redistribute them. LICENSE="all-rights-reserved", RESTRICT="mirror bindist" sword-ab sword-bulcarigradnt sword-czecep sword-czekms sword-czenkb sword-dbd sword-emtv sword-finpr92 sword-hunuj sword-kekchi sword-sparvg2004 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The remaining 10 packages are special cases, going through them indiviually. sword-afr1953 No DistributionLicense, but the About field says: "This copyright Bible has kindly been made available by the Bible Society of South Africa, strictly for non-commercial use with The SWORD Project." This looks like "free-noncomm" to me. sword-akjv DistributionLicense says "Free non-commercial distribution", but the About field is more free: "I am hereby putting the American King James version of the Bible into the public domain on November 8, 1999. You may use it in any manner you wish: copy it, sell it, modify it, etc. You can't copyright it or prevent others from using it. You can't claim that you created it, because you didn't." The same information is also on the original homepage of the source. IMHO this is "public-domain". sword-farsiopv DistributionLicense says "With Permission of the International Bible Society free for non commercial use only". In addition, there is this in the About field: "In all likelihood this text is now public domain simply due to its age, but we ask you to respect the International Bible Society's request to use this text only in non-commercial ways until full clarity on its legal status has been obtained." Seems that "free-noncomm" is the best we can do here. sword-frelsg About says: "Texte libre de droits" Does this qualify as "public-domain"? sword-isv DistributionLicense says: "Copyrighted; Permission to distribute granted to CrossWire", but there also is: "It may be distributed freely in its current form, without changes." If we go with the latter statement, it would be "freedist". sword-kjv DistributionLicense says: "General public license for distribution for any purpose" and in About there is: "It is in this spirit that we in turn offer the KJV2003 Project text freely for any purpose. Any copyright that might be obtained for this effort is held by CrossWire Bible Society (c) 2003 and CrossWire Bible Society hereby grants a general public license to use this text for any purpose." Permission to distribute, but not to modify, i.e., "freedist". sword-litv "All rights reserved. Permission to non-commercially distribute freely for use with The SWORD Project, granted by Jay P. Green, Jr. on Oct 3, 2002" Looks like "free-noncomm". sword-mkjv DistributionLicense says: "Copyrighted; Permission to distribute granted to CrossWire", but there is also: "All rights reserved. Permission to non-commercially distribute freely for use with The SWORD Project, granted by Jay P. Green, Jr. on Oct 3, 2002" Which is the same as for the previous one, so "free-noncomm" too? sword-personal "This module allows you to store your own commentary." This contains a big file filled with zero bytes. "public-domain" sword-rwp DistributionLicense says: "Copyrighted; Free non-commercial distribution" However, there also is: "Vol 1,2,3,4 Public Domain -- Copy Freely Volume 5 (c) 1932. Renewal 1960 Broadman Press. All rights reserved. Used by permission. [Copyright expires Dec. 31, 2006.] Volume 6 (c) 1933. Renewal 1960 Broadman Press. All rights reserved. Used by permission. [Copyright expires Dec. 31, 2007.]" If we believe their statement that copyright for volumes 5 and 6 has expired by now, then this is "public-domain".
@Licenses team: Please review (especially whether my conclusions for the last 10 packages make sense). @creffett: Long time ago, you gave me permission to fix license issues in KDE packages myself. If you like, I could update these sword-* packages too.
(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #0) > For 22 packages, there seems to be no license information at all. > Presumably, we have to use LICENSE="all-rights-reserved" for them, > plus RESTRICT="mirror bindist": Going through this list again, I see updated information for two of the packages at http://www2.crosswire.org/sword/modules/ModInfo.jsp?modName=${SWORD_MODULE}: > sword-bulveren "Copyrighted; Permission granted to distribute non-commercially in Sword format" i.e. LICENSE="free-noncomm" > sword-geneva1599 "Public Domain"
(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #0) > sword-sparvg2004 This actually has LICENSE="sword-sparvg2004", which seems to allow distribution: "All Churches or organizations that want to print or reproduce it for free distribution have the clear liberty to do so without need to pay royalties, always and when they do not change any of the written words."
All licenses updated, as outlined above. I have also sent last rites for the packages that are not redistributable: # Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> (2020-01-06) # No license, therefore we have no permission to redistribute # these packages on Gentoo mirrors. Distfiles are unversioned # zipballs, which are updated in place when a new version is # released. Since this will break digests, mirror restriction # is not feasible. # Masked for removal in 30 days. Bug #703604. app-dicts/sword-ab app-dicts/sword-abs_essay_goodsam_swb app-dicts/sword-br_en app-dicts/sword-bulcarigradnt app-dicts/sword-bwe app-dicts/sword-chincvs app-dicts/sword-chincvt app-dicts/sword-chiun app-dicts/sword-chiuns app-dicts/sword-czecep app-dicts/sword-czekms app-dicts/sword-czenkb app-dicts/sword-dbd app-dicts/sword-emtv app-dicts/sword-est app-dicts/sword-family app-dicts/sword-finpr92 app-dicts/sword-frecrl app-dicts/sword-geneva app-dicts/sword-hebmodern app-dicts/sword-hunuj app-dicts/sword-icelandic app-dicts/sword-kekchi app-dicts/sword-korean app-dicts/sword-la_en app-dicts/sword-latvian app-dicts/sword-maori app-dicts/sword-romcor app-dicts/sword-umgreek app-dicts/sword-xhosa
(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #4) > app-dicts/sword-geneva This one is translation notes for the Geneva1599 Bible (sword-geneva1599). As such it/they should be loooong... out of copyright. The history is that this Bible and these notes were written by Calvin and others during their exile to Geneva during the rein of Bloody Mary in England. As such some of the notes have a political bent that later English monarchs including King James I didn't like, leading him to commission the King James Bible of 1611. So they're controversial but are historical documents as well as Biblical commentary. See https://genevabible.com/introduction/ (among others I found with a simple google).
(In reply to Duncan from comment #5) > (In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #4) > > > app-dicts/sword-geneva > > This one is translation notes for the Geneva1599 Bible (sword-geneva1599). > As such it/they should be loooong... out of copyright. > > The history is that this Bible and these notes were written by Calvin and > others during their exile to Geneva during the rein of Bloody Mary in > England. As such some of the notes have a political bent that later English > monarchs including King James I didn't like, leading him to commission the > King James Bible of 1611. So they're controversial but are historical > documents as well as Biblical commentary. > > See https://genevabible.com/introduction/ (among others I found with a > simple google). I see. You may want to file a bug upstream, so that they add that information to the module. I simply went by the metadata (geneva.conf in the zipball) which doesn't say anything about the license. http://www.crosswire.org/sword/modules/ModInfo.jsp?modName=Geneva
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=ff053209f023908237ad1b3808f79db5d1e14d72 commit ff053209f023908237ad1b3808f79db5d1e14d72 Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-01-13 09:50:40 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-01-13 09:52:33 +0000 profiles: Drop mask for app-dicts/sword-geneva. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/703604#c5 Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> profiles/package.mask | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=d9a7c0f84ee5c09af8ecc37ac019c1c65d560484 commit d9a7c0f84ee5c09af8ecc37ac019c1c65d560484 Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-01-13 09:49:55 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-01-13 09:52:32 +0000 app-dicts/sword-geneva: Update LICENSE. Supposedly, this is in the public domain because copyright has expired. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/703604#c5 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.84, Repoman-2.3.20 Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> app-dicts/sword-geneva/sword-geneva-1.1.ebuild | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #6) > I see. You may want to file a bug upstream, so that they add that > information to the module. I simply went by the metadata (geneva.conf in the > zipball) which doesn't say anything about the license. Or rather, not license but copyright status.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=7d66c43e896f9e676fd07b0fede7b0df438be284 commit 7d66c43e896f9e676fd07b0fede7b0df438be284 Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-02-05 09:34:43 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-02-05 09:40:28 +0000 app-dicts/sword-*: Remove last-rited packages. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/703604 Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> app-dicts/sword-ab/Manifest | 1 - app-dicts/sword-ab/metadata.xml | 8 -------- app-dicts/sword-ab/sword-ab-1.3.ebuild | 14 -------------- app-dicts/sword-abs_essay_goodsam_swb/Manifest | 1 - app-dicts/sword-abs_essay_goodsam_swb/metadata.xml | 8 -------- .../sword-abs_essay_goodsam_swb-1.0.ebuild | 14 -------------- app-dicts/sword-br_en/Manifest | 1 - app-dicts/sword-br_en/metadata.xml | 8 -------- app-dicts/sword-br_en/sword-br_en-1.1.ebuild | 13 ------------- app-dicts/sword-bulcarigradnt/Manifest | 1 - app-dicts/sword-bulcarigradnt/metadata.xml | 8 -------- .../sword-bulcarigradnt/sword-bulcarigradnt-1.0.ebuild | 13 ------------- app-dicts/sword-bwe/Manifest | 1 - app-dicts/sword-bwe/metadata.xml | 8 -------- app-dicts/sword-bwe/sword-bwe-1.0.ebuild | 13 ------------- app-dicts/sword-chincvs/Manifest | 1 - app-dicts/sword-chincvs/metadata.xml | 8 -------- app-dicts/sword-chincvs/sword-chincvs-1.0.ebuild | 13 ------------- app-dicts/sword-chincvt/Manifest | 1 - app-dicts/sword-chincvt/metadata.xml | 8 -------- app-dicts/sword-chincvt/sword-chincvt-1.0.ebuild | 13 ------------- app-dicts/sword-chiun/Manifest | 1 - app-dicts/sword-chiun/metadata.xml | 8 -------- app-dicts/sword-chiun/sword-chiun-2.0.ebuild | 13 ------------- app-dicts/sword-chiuns/Manifest | 1 - app-dicts/sword-chiuns/metadata.xml | 8 -------- app-dicts/sword-chiuns/sword-chiuns-2.0.ebuild | 13 ------------- app-dicts/sword-czecep/Manifest | 1 - app-dicts/sword-czecep/metadata.xml | 8 -------- app-dicts/sword-czecep/sword-czecep-1.4.ebuild | 13 ------------- app-dicts/sword-czekms/Manifest | 1 - app-dicts/sword-czekms/metadata.xml | 8 -------- app-dicts/sword-czekms/sword-czekms-1.4.ebuild | 13 ------------- app-dicts/sword-czenkb/Manifest | 1 - app-dicts/sword-czenkb/metadata.xml | 8 -------- app-dicts/sword-czenkb/sword-czenkb-1.1.ebuild | 13 ------------- app-dicts/sword-dbd/Manifest | 1 - app-dicts/sword-dbd/metadata.xml | 8 -------- app-dicts/sword-dbd/sword-dbd-1.1.ebuild | 13 ------------- app-dicts/sword-emtv/Manifest | 1 - app-dicts/sword-emtv/metadata.xml | 8 -------- app-dicts/sword-emtv/sword-emtv-1.3.ebuild | 13 ------------- app-dicts/sword-est/Manifest | 1 - app-dicts/sword-est/metadata.xml | 8 -------- app-dicts/sword-est/sword-est-1.1.ebuild | 13 ------------- app-dicts/sword-family/Manifest | 1 - app-dicts/sword-family/metadata.xml | 8 -------- app-dicts/sword-family/sword-family-1.1.ebuild | 13 ------------- app-dicts/sword-finpr92/Manifest | 1 - app-dicts/sword-finpr92/metadata.xml | 8 -------- app-dicts/sword-finpr92/sword-finpr92-1.1.ebuild | 13 ------------- app-dicts/sword-frecrl/Manifest | 1 - app-dicts/sword-frecrl/metadata.xml | 8 -------- app-dicts/sword-frecrl/sword-frecrl-1.2.ebuild | 13 ------------- app-dicts/sword-hebmodern/Manifest | 1 - app-dicts/sword-hebmodern/metadata.xml | 8 -------- app-dicts/sword-hebmodern/sword-hebmodern-1.1.ebuild | 13 ------------- app-dicts/sword-hunuj/Manifest | 1 - app-dicts/sword-hunuj/metadata.xml | 8 -------- app-dicts/sword-hunuj/sword-hunuj-1.2.ebuild | 13 ------------- app-dicts/sword-icelandic/Manifest | 1 - app-dicts/sword-icelandic/metadata.xml | 8 -------- app-dicts/sword-icelandic/sword-icelandic-1.1.ebuild | 13 ------------- app-dicts/sword-kekchi/Manifest | 1 - app-dicts/sword-kekchi/metadata.xml | 8 -------- app-dicts/sword-kekchi/sword-kekchi-1.5.ebuild | 13 ------------- app-dicts/sword-korean/Manifest | 1 - app-dicts/sword-korean/metadata.xml | 8 -------- app-dicts/sword-korean/sword-korean-1.1.ebuild | 13 ------------- app-dicts/sword-la_en/Manifest | 1 - app-dicts/sword-la_en/metadata.xml | 8 -------- app-dicts/sword-la_en/sword-la_en-1.1.ebuild | 13 ------------- app-dicts/sword-latvian/Manifest | 1 - app-dicts/sword-latvian/metadata.xml | 8 -------- app-dicts/sword-latvian/sword-latvian-1.1.ebuild | 13 ------------- app-dicts/sword-maori/Manifest | 1 - app-dicts/sword-maori/metadata.xml | 8 -------- app-dicts/sword-maori/sword-maori-1.1.ebuild | 13 ------------- app-dicts/sword-romcor/Manifest | 1 - app-dicts/sword-romcor/metadata.xml | 8 -------- app-dicts/sword-romcor/sword-romcor-1.2.ebuild | 13 ------------- app-dicts/sword-umgreek/Manifest | 1 - app-dicts/sword-umgreek/metadata.xml | 8 -------- app-dicts/sword-umgreek/sword-umgreek-1.6.ebuild | 13 ------------- app-dicts/sword-xhosa/Manifest | 1 - app-dicts/sword-xhosa/metadata.xml | 8 -------- app-dicts/sword-xhosa/sword-xhosa-1.1.ebuild | 13 ------------- 87 files changed, 640 deletions(-)
