package submission policy question

[Bill Nottingham]

Matthew Miller (mattdm at mattdm.org) said: 
> > > Neither software package installs any biblical texts, those are to be
> > > installed by the user - typically in the users home directory, from a
> > > repository of modules that does respect the intellectual property rights
> > > of the copyright holders.
> > I'd think the copyright on that would have lapsed into the
> > public domain by now.
> 
> I'm not a lawyer, but probably various translations have their own
> copyrights.

Ah, but were the copyrights assigned to the original translators, 
the compilers of the translations, or to King James himself?

Bill