Re: License Islamic Holy material

[Mohammed Adnène Trojette <adn at diwi dot org>]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2006, Elyess ZOUAGHI wrote:
> i think theres many type of islamic holy materials for exemple the
> holy quran and hadith echarif should be licenced (if not) as : u can
> use it like u want (sell,ditribute,...) and u cannot modify it.

The main problem is :

what authority do you have to license (or re-license) these materials?

You're not their author, ni hair of the author. The authors of the
hadith are dead for hundreds of years.

Legally, that automatically puts them under the public domain.

> the second thing is the islamic programs created as open source
> software should have a unique licence : same as GPL but u cannot
> modify the HOLY TEXTS and the only one who have the right of that is
> the author so if a mistake is found the author should be contacted and
> he will fix the mistake.

That can be a disclaimer (as in "be careful"), but in no case a license
(as in "you must do").

> PS1: i think such problem is high priority to protect our islamic materials.

Protection goes with information.

> PS2: i remember reading something about special license for christians
> holy materials, anyone readed the license ? ill google for it ...

I would be curious to hear that. Thanks for having a look.

-- 
adn
Mohammed Adnène Trojette