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Re: License Islamic Holy material
- To: General Arabization Discussion <general at arabeyes dot org>
- Subject: Re: License Islamic Holy material
- From: Mohammed Adnčne Trojette <adn at diwi dot org>
- Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 01:01:46 +0200
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On Sat, Oct 07, 2006, Mohammed Sameer wrote:
> 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.
Fully seconded. Well said, Mohammed.
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adn
Mohammed Adnčne Trojette