Re: Wordlist License

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Youssef Chahibi <chahibi at gmail dot com> wrote:
> So, what was decided about the wordlist license? Are the original
> authors OK to relicense it under GFDL?

Sorry for the delay in replying to this topic (though I've discussed
this issue with a number of you on IRC for what's that worth).

In order to relicense anything we'll have to get ALL the previous
contributors' blessing (or approval) - this is common practice.

Ever since GFDL [1] was selected as the new license (for various
reasons not worth getting into here), I was a bit aprehensive of
giving my personal OK (since I was/am a contributor to the
English->Arabic Wordlist) in fear of excluding debian.  Debian had
an issue with the license yet after a bit of asking around (thanks
'adn') I was told that debian is now OK with the license as noted
in their vote [2].  And the reason I say we (and debian) should
not have an issue with this license is that the wordlist does not
(and will not) contain any "unmodifiable" sections.  All our data
is modifiable (as a number of people have seen :-).

So where does this leave us with regard to this topic ?  Well the
following people will have to give their OK (in writing directly
from them to the 'doc' mailing-list or to one of the other listed
contributors in order for them to forward to the list) so that we
can get this new license to take affect.  The list of past/present
contributors is noted below (if anyone is outside the list, we'll
need to contact them in earnest for comment).

Contributors listed in username alphabetical order (from CVS logs):

The decision below pretains to,

  "Approve the relicensing of wordlist [3] to GFDL ?"

    Name                                    Decision
---------------------------------------+------------------
 1. Abdulaziz Al-Arfaj (alarfaj)       | 1.
 2. Ahmad Al-Rasheedan (alrasheedan)   | 2.
 3. Anmar Oueja (anmar)                | 3.
 4. Moustafa Elqabbany (elqabbany)     | 4.
 5. Mohammed Gamal (gamal)             | 5.
 6. Ossama Khayat (khayat)             | 6.
 7. Nadim Shaikli (nadim)              | 7. Yes
 8. Munzir Obeid (obeid)               | 8.

PS: if you know someone noted is NOT on the mailing-list, do please
    forward this email to them.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
[2] http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001.en.html
[3] http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Wordlist

Salam.

 - Nadim



 
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