API copyright
API copyright
Posted Jan 26, 2020 23:11 UTC (Sun) by jafd (subscriber, #129642)In reply to: API copyright by dps
Parent article: Wine 5.0 released
Posted Jan 27, 2020 9:14 UTC (Mon)
by beagnach (guest, #32987)
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The modern legal concept of copyright post-dates the King James Bible by several hundred years. I believe the KJV is under perpetual Crown Copyright, which at that time was intended to give certain publishers a monopoly on printing forever - something quite different from modern copyright.
This is my rough understanding of the situation. If someone more knowledgeable cares to correct me please do.
API copyright
In any case it seems this right was not exercised by the printers or enforced by the Crown so the KJV is believed to be effectively public domain.