Re: Quran license

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

The audio recordings that I'm doing are of my Father. So, you can
put them under whatever license you want.
And anyway, this is a part of our religion and no one (IMHO) has
the right to prevent it from spreading!

Ossama Khayat

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mohammed Elzubeir" <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org>
To: <developer at arabeyes dot org>
Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: Quran license


> On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 02:41:15PM +0300, Osama ALASSIRY wrote:
> > The text and audio are probably already public domain... I don't think
> > you can GPL them... you do not own the right.
> >
> > Same thing for the data in the xml file, you can only licence the XML
> > dtd (file format).
> >
> >
>
> And how exactly did you gather that they are public domain? Especially for
> the audio? My main concern here is that someone would make use of the
> audio files without giving back to the OSS community. The audio files
> obviously required some work.
>
> Please do the following (for those who have these things accessible):
>   - if you have audio tapes of Quranic readings, look for any kind of
>     copyright notice or statement of ownership
>   - if you have multiple copies (different issues) of the Quran text look
for
>     possible copyright notices.
>
> I think we should just follow those. If you find nothing indicating any
> kind of ownership, I guess public domain it is.
>
> later
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