Re: Prayertime Library

[Arafat Medini <lumina at silverpen dot de>]

The software can be indeed GPL as other software is copyrighted by
foundations or single person but is distributed under the GPL. If I am
not wrong and acording to what the GPL says the software IS GPLed as it
is distributed as a GPL software (cz of Debian...) claiming ownership of
the softwre by copyrighting it does no change it's status. For eg. Linux
is copyrighted by Linus Torvalds or some gnome apps by the FSF
etc...Still they are GPLed.

yours
Arafat

Am Mon, 2003-12-01 um 12.04 schrieb Mohammed Elzubeir:
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 02:28:55AM -0800, Ahmad Twaijry wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> > 
> > Here what I have found in the file
> > 
> > /*  hdate.c  v1.1
> >  *
> >  * Copyright (c) 1992 by Waleed A. Muhanna
> >  *
> >  * Permission for nonprofit use and redistribution of this software and
> >  * its documentation is hereby granted without fee, provided that the
> >  * above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright
> >  * notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation.
> >  *
> >  * No representation is made about the suitability of this software for
> > any
> >  * purpose.  It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
> >  *
> >  * Send any comments/suggestions/fixes/additions to:
> >  *              wmuhanna at magnus dot acs dot ohio-state dot edu
> >  *
> >  */
> > 
> > 
> > does this mean its under GPL ?
> 
> No, not necessarily. But, I grabbed the debian package 'apt-get source
> hdate' and reading the 'copyright' file, it is clearly GPL.
> 
> Aymen?
> 
> Regards