Fwd: Re: hdate in Debian GNU/Linux

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

I'm forwarding this to the list simply for archival and informational
purposes since this topic was raised in the past.

 - Nadim

--- Ayman Negm <a dot negm at hamburg dot de> wrote:
> To: Ayman Negm <a dot negm at hamburg dot de>
> From: "Waleed A. Muhanna" <wmuhanna at cob dot osu dot edu>
> Subject: Re: hdate in Debian GNU/Linux
>
> At 07:59 PM 12/29/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> >Dear Mr. Muhanna,
> >
> >I am Debian Maintainer and at present maintain hdate in Debian GNU/Linux,
> >I overtook the maintainership for hdate since the old maintainer
> >Mohammed Yousef disapeard, I noticed that hdate licence is not free 
> >as Debian and GNU project understand free software [1], I noticed also 
> >that you hadn't made releases for a long time, and there is a group of
> >arabic Developers (www.arabeyes.org) who want to reuse your code but the
> >licence restricts this, so is it possible to change the licence to the 
> >[2]GPL (General Public Licence)  or other free Software licence? 
> >so it would make the change and resuse possible, and sure your name as 
> >author will still be there.
> 
> Dear Ayman,
> 
> As much as I would like to help, I am afraid I am not
> prepared to make the software (hdate and hcal, which are part of 
> a larger IslamicTimer software package) available under a GPL
> license at this time.   As copyright notice included on the
> various modules indicates, the software is available for use
> without charge for non-profit use ONLY.
> 
> FYI, I am working on an overdue new release of the software and 
> may consider putting it in the public domain when the new release 
> is available for distribution (around March).  
> 
> >P.S if you do not answer my mail in two weeks I gota remove hdate from
> >Debian archiv and tell arabeyes.org developer to start to wirte a 
> >solution from scratch.
> 
> Please do.  I hold the copyright and any attempt to release public-domain
> versions of the software would be illegal.
> 
> >[1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract
> >[2] http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
> >
> >Thanks in Advance
> >-- 
> > Ayman Negm
> > Debian GNU/Linux  http://www.debian.org
>
> _______________________________________________________________
> Waleed A. Muhanna, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor    
> Dept. of Accounting and Management Information Systems
> Fisher College of Business
> The Ohio State University
> 2100 Neil Avenue,Columbus, OH  43210
> Email: muhanna dot 1 at osu dot edu                         
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