Has anybody asked the Quran Complex whether they provide a computer version of the Arabic Quran and fonts to render it? I think this is more important than the translations.
--- Nadim Shaikli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- 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 _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
