On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 01:00:42PM +0200, Ahmed Kamal wrote: > > Hi List, > I was made aware that licensing Islamic holy material (such as Quran > text, or Hadith) is problematic, as we need to make it legally impossible > for someone to change and redistribute it. Yet we need to release under > under a free usage license. What if they discover an error ? Your license will prevent the correction. What I'd do is release them under a FLOSS license, Have the md5sums of the data files embedded in the application and check the files when the application starts. If the md5sum matches, fine. Otherwise we display a warning to the user. I rely here on the FOSS community maintaining a level of ethical behaviour. I can say that Debian wouldn't modify them, Mandriva wouldn't modify them, .... Beside: The Holy Quran is under the public domain. Not sure how can one re-license that. -- GNU/Linux registered user #224950 Proud Egyptian GNU/Linux User Group <www.eglug.org> Member. Life powered by Debian, Homepage: www.foolab.org -- Don't send me any attachment in Micro$oft (.DOC, .PPT) format please Read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Preferable attachments: .PDF, .HTML, .TXT Thanx for adding this text to Your signature
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