Re: [general] License Islamic Holy material

[Hamed Al-Suhli <hamed at e3rab dot com>]

Salam
 Eight years very long time, but the issue still at many places including
Arabeyes wiki. http://goo.gl/6GlnS5
So I replaying the old discussion if someone has Ideas?

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 7:40 AM, Abdalla Alothman <abdalla at pheye dot net> wrote:

> Asalamu alaikum,
>
> On Tuesday 17 October 2006 12:51 am, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> >
> > Here is a document [1] that M.Yousif had put together, but unfortunately
> > this topic wasn't pursued (beyond various posts here arguing for the need
> > to use new/special display technology which IMHO doesn't address our
> > current needs) and nothing was accomplished.
>
> To be honest, I was silently observing some people building the roof before
> the house, but it's difficult to warn of such flaws as you might probably
> understand.
>
> > Not to cut this short, but we can certainly do both - the license might
> be
> > meaningless to some yet a deterrent to others as such it might have some
> > value given the proper restrictions are put in place (no harm done).
>
> That's fine. But you should be aware of what you expect the power of
> the license will present to you. We said that it is best to license what
> comes from "your" (not you specifically, but anyone else) mind. Imagine
> you issue a license, and you predict that someone else has used the
> content. Probably you -- or someone else -- might take that person to
> court. If that person proves by showing employment contracts or any
> other evidence that he (it might be a small company) produced that
> content by himself, then your case would be discarded. The evidence
> can be original scans, employment contracts that state employee 1-30
> were hired to scan and correct, or type a certain Hadeeth collection of
> tafseer volumes.
>
> But that's not the end of the story, that person might return to you
> with some ripe compensation and request to annul the license
> altogether because it applies on content that shouldn't be licensed.
>
> In fact, any person who sees harm from that license can protest in
> front of a court. But then again, the choice is totally up to you. :-)
>
> On the other hand, if the license presents no power to protect the
> content or some rights, it's useless. But that's my personal opinion,
> of course.
>
> > The
> > need to host and note various Hashes I think is a given on a per release
> > basis.
>
> This would be a good exercise so that nobody "releases" anything unless
> it is properly audited and revised. Once the revision is proper there would
> be no reason for multiple releases. Again, Islamic content is a type of
> content that should be rarely edited and should contain minimal errors.
>
> Wishing you and your family peace and good health.
>
> Salam,
> Abdalla Alothman
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