Re: Prayertime Library

[abdulhaq <al-arabeyes at alinsyria dot fsnet dot co dot uk>]

Copyright and the licence under which code is distributed is two different 
things altogether.

Yes, retaining copyright over something does not prevent the author from 
distributing it under the GPL licence. However, in this case the author has 
written his own licence ("Permission for nonprofit use and redistribution of 
......") and this licence is not GPL. You can't assign new licences to a 
copyrighted product without the permission of the author (which is what 
happens when code under other licences is absorbed into eg Debian). You need 
the permission of the author and as I said he is not answering emails about 
this. 

I only mention it as licensing is an important issue in general, it appears 
that this code may not be useful anyway.

wassalaam
abdulhaq


On Monday 01 December 2003 8:37 pm, Arafat Medini wrote:
> 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
>
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wassalaam
abdulhaq