Re: Prayertime Library

[abdulhaq <al-arabeyes at alinsyria dot fsnet dot co dot uk>]

assalaamu `alaykum
I've run into Waleed's work before and I tried emailing him (it appears that 
he's an IT professor now). I did not get a reply and I have the impression he 
doesn't want to deal with his old programs any more. However, his original 
copyright notice is unambiguous and is obviously not GPL. I suspect that the 
brother who debian-ised is was a bit careless about attaching the GPL notice 
to it as it's the original license which is correct. It is possible that his 
licence is equivalent to the GPL but I am not a lawyer.

You can freely use his code of course providing you adhere to the conditions 
stipulated in his original licence.

On Monday 01 December 2003 11:04 am, Mohammed Elzubeir wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 02:28:55AM -0800, Ahmad Twaijry wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > Here what I have found in the file
> >
> > /*  hdate.c  v1.1
> >  *
> >  * Copyright (c) 1992 by Waleed A. Muhanna
> >  *
> >  * Permission for nonprofit use and redistribution of this software and
> >  * its documentation is hereby granted without fee, provided that the
> >  * above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that
> > copyright * notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
> > documentation. *
> >  * No representation is made about the suitability of this software for
> > any
> >  * purpose.  It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
> >  *
> >  * Send any comments/suggestions/fixes/additions to:
> >  *              wmuhanna at magnus dot acs dot ohio-state dot edu
> >  *
> >  */
> >
> >
> > does this mean its under GPL ?
>
> No, not necessarily. But, I grabbed the debian package 'apt-get source
> hdate' and reading the 'copyright' file, it is clearly GPL.
>
> Aymen?
>
> Regards

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wassalaam
abdulhaq