Re: Wordlist license [Nadim? Ossama?]

[Ossama Khayat <okhayat at yahoo dot com>]

I don't know why would the GPL be restrictive! Is it because they want to use it in commercial software? They can if they make it GPL or FDL (correct me if I'm wrong).

How could all those softwares licensed under the GPL survive and be among the most popular if the GPL is restricting them.

Anyway, again I live the final decision to Nadim and AlRushaidan as they are the original authors.

regards,

----- Original Message ----
From: Mohamed Magdy <mohamed dot m dot k at gmail dot com>
To: Documentation and Translation <doc at arabeyes dot org>
Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2007 1:20:27 AM
Subject: Re: Wordlist license [Nadim? Ossama?]

The double licensing of the wordlist or even relicense it to a more free 
license is very important task..so that as many projects benefit from 
the work put into it..leaving the licence as GPL is very restricting.. I 
don't know about you guys but.. what were the objectives in the first 
place? weren't it to create a free wordlist to be used as an umbrella 
for all the other projects who needs the resources? if it stays with the 
same licence we(you) are making it difficult for anyone who wants to 
start a project hence making them reinventing the wheel..Arabeye's 
wordlist is the only hope for such projects and Arabeyes is open-minded 
because they cannot(other projects) afford to buy copyright license for 
their projects from massive corporations like Sakhr ...so I say that 
we(you) should give the gift of knowledge for any seekers by relicensing 
the wordlist..that is just my opinion...

Mohamed Magdy(alnokta)
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