Re: Quran license

[Ossama Khayaat <ossamak at nht dot com dot kw>]

Oh, that's right. I guess Mohammad Damt or anyone
who know enough information about licenses should
advise us on this.

Ossama K.

Mohamed Salah wrote:
> Assalam 3alaikum,
> Brothers,
> The GPL License allow to modifiy the content of the
> thing distributed under this license. 
> "2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program
> or any portion of it, thus forming a work based on the
> Program, and copy and distribute such modifications or
> work under the terms of Section 1 above, provided that
> you also meet all of these conditions: ..."
>
> So i think that we can't distribute the content (which
> is the Holy Quraan) under this licence. we should
> protect this content from alteration or modification
> by any person unless it is an authority like
> al-azhar...
>
> I propose that you modify the GPL Licence to protect
> and distribute these audio and XML Files with respect
> to the holiness of Quraan.
>
> at the end, i apologize if my english isn't good
> enough to be understood.
>
> Mohamed (salahm), 
>
>
>  --- Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org> a
> écrit : > On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 01:20:55PM +0700,
> Mohammad
>
> > DAMT wrote:
> >
> > > Brothers,
> > >
> > > What's appropriate license for Quran data (XML and
> >
> > audio files),
> >
> > > is Public Domain good enough?
> > >
> > > I was about to make rpm files for quran projects
> >
> > and got stuck on this 
> >
> > > matter.
> >
> > I think the text is public domain, but the XML
> > format and audio recording
> > can be either way. I would suggest you keep it under
> > the GPL.
> >
> > That's just my suggestion though, I think this is by
> > far up to those
> > involved directly (namely you, M.Yousif and Khayat).
> >
> > later
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