Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: Wordlist License

[Youssef Chahibi <chahibi at gmail dot com>]

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Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Wordlist License
Date: Saturday 24 February 2007 11:13
From: Ahmad Al-rasheedan <asr at baldi dot cc>
To: Youssef Chahibi <chahibi at gmail dot com>
Cc: munzirtaha at gmail dot com, situmam at gmail dot com, elqabbany at yahoo dot com, 
f2c2001 at yahoo dot com

I will be honored to have my contribution see the light. I did mark a
"Yes" next to my name at the bottom of the message. Let me know if this
is not enough and you need something more.

Kind regards,

Youssef Chahibi wrote:
> ط§ظ„ط³ظ„ط§ظ… ط¹ظ„ظٹظƒظ…
>
> Arabeyes is interested in relicense the Wordlist to GFDL, so that we can
> share this piece of work with the Arabic Wiktionary. Here is forwared
> Nadim's reply. So far, three former Wordlist contributors agreed: Nadim
> Shaikli, Ossama Khayat and Abdulaziz Al-Arfaj. Please take a part in this
> voting.
>
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>
> Subject: Re: Wordlist License
> Date: Thursday 22 February 2007 22:29
> From: Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>
> To: Documentation and Translation <doc at arabeyes dot org>
>
> --- 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. Yes
>  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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