--- Mohammad DAMT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Finally our lawyer friend Erwin Sundoro <sundoro at hotmail dot com> > suggested an addendum to LGPL and disclaimer for libquran and data
Great - its always nice to have a lawyer friend :-) > files. He said that Quran can't be licensed as nobody is holding it's > copyright. And a license can't be published if there is no copyright. > Even if the data files are translation of the original text, since a > translation can be considered as a derivative work of the original text. > > If there's no license we can't put restrictions in data files. One of > his idea is to provide a "certified" data files. We can use GPG or > simply MD5 hash to make a data file certified. The GPG signature or MD5 > then published in Quran section in Arabeyes website. If data files > installed in user's computer are not having same signature/hash then we > (Arabeyes) are not responsible for that copy. I really have no comments on the license (or addition thereof) as I'm sure there are lots of people more capable than I in this field. One related comment. Walid, M.Yousif and I (to some degree) have been trying to contact qurancomplex.org to see if we can use some of their translations and in one of our conversations the topic of using MD5 came up and we kinda thought of the following. Instead of Arabeyes hosting any of the translations (or the actual Arabic Quran), we should simply point people to where they can download them from. For instance, if we can get qurancomplex.org to meet us half way, they can supply us with say an english translation XML file (per whatever format you guys deem acceptable), we'd then generate an MD5 fingerprint. Once that fingerprint is gotten, we embed that info into the Quran library (in binary format) so that the program would only open pre-defined and agreed-upon fingerprinted data. That would then render the "where did you get the data from" question immaterial (as long as the MD5 message digests match, it doesn't matter). As I'm not sure what has transpired with our contact with qurancomplex (Walid/M.Yousif could you please give us an update - is qurancomplex now aware of how serious we are about this ?), I'm not sure how best to proceed as we're back to the original problem at hand - where to get non-tampered with data from ? Salam and sorry to get off topic a bit. - Nadim __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
