Re: Quran license

[Isam Bayazidi <bayazidi at arabeyes dot org>]

Salam ..
  I second Mohammed Elzubeir on this. It is no doubt that the Holy Quran text 
is public domain, but what about translations? are they copyrighted? now 
Osama al-Khayat noted that recordings from his father are open, but does the 
GPL apply on the Audio files ? is there a source and a binary format of the 
OGG file ? I don't guess so, the Audio are much like documents, so we should 
look for a document license.. 
  Now there comes the XML and the QT/GTK coding.. now you can choose the 
license you want for it.. maybe GPL .. what about using LGPL for libquran? 
allowing to build a software of any kind above libquran .. make libquran on 
LGPL, the QtQuran under maybe GPL or whatever .. I am not sure .. but it 
seems that the LGPL is appropriate for things like libquran..

Yours
Isam Bayazidi


On Saturday 28 December 2002 21:32, Mohammed Elzubeir wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 08:54:26PM +0300, Ossama Khayaat wrote:
> > 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!
>
> I think the general consensus is that it should be available to
> whoever, whenever and however ;) The problem is with giving the right
> to modify any of the data. What if you have typo's? Who is responsible
> for them? What if you start having multiple versions of them? What
> about translations? Aren't those copyrighted? How are they treated
> differently from the original text (in the eyes of the law).
>
> Please, if someone knows any lawyers (friends, relatives, etc.) try
> to ask for their advise.
>
> Thanks