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Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Wordlist License Date: Saturday 24 February 2007 11:13 From: Ahmad Al-rasheedan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Youssef Chahibi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] I will be honored to have my contribution see the light. I did mark a "Yes" next to my name at the bottom of the message. Let me know if this is not enough and you need something more. Kind regards, Youssef Chahibi wrote: > ط§ظ„ط³ظ„ط§ظ… ط¹ظ„ظٹظƒظ… > > Arabeyes is interested in relicense the Wordlist to GFDL, so that we can > share this piece of work with the Arabic Wiktionary. Here is forwared > Nadim's reply. So far, three former Wordlist contributors agreed: Nadim > Shaikli, Ossama Khayat and Abdulaziz Al-Arfaj. Please take a part in this > voting. > > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > Subject: Re: Wordlist License > Date: Thursday 22 February 2007 22:29 > From: Nadim Shaikli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Documentation and Translation <[email protected]> > > --- Youssef Chahibi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So, what was decided about the wordlist license? Are the original >> authors OK to relicense it under GFDL? > > Sorry for the delay in replying to this topic (though I've discussed > this issue with a number of you on IRC for what's that worth). > > In order to relicense anything we'll have to get ALL the previous > contributors' blessing (or approval) - this is common practice. > > Ever since GFDL [1] was selected as the new license (for various > reasons not worth getting into here), I was a bit aprehensive of > giving my personal OK (since I was/am a contributor to the > English->Arabic Wordlist) in fear of excluding debian. Debian had > an issue with the license yet after a bit of asking around (thanks > 'adn') I was told that debian is now OK with the license as noted > in their vote [2]. And the reason I say we (and debian) should > not have an issue with this license is that the wordlist does not > (and will not) contain any "unmodifiable" sections. All our data > is modifiable (as a number of people have seen :-). > > So where does this leave us with regard to this topic ? Well the > following people will have to give their OK (in writing directly > from them to the 'doc' mailing-list or to one of the other listed > contributors in order for them to forward to the list) so that we > can get this new license to take affect. The list of past/present > contributors is noted below (if anyone is outside the list, we'll > need to contact them in earnest for comment). > > Contributors listed in username alphabetical order (from CVS logs): > > The decision below pretains to, > > "Approve the relicensing of wordlist [3] to GFDL ?" > > Name Decision > ---------------------------------------+------------------ > 1. Abdulaziz Al-Arfaj (alarfaj) | 1. > 2. Ahmad Al-Rasheedan (alrasheedan) | 2. Yes > 3. Anmar Oueja (anmar) | 3. > 4. Moustafa Elqabbany (elqabbany) | 4. > 5. Mohammed Gamal (gamal) | 5. > 6. Ossama Khayat (khayat) | 6. > 7. Nadim Shaikli (nadim) | 7. Yes > 8. Munzir Obeid (obeid) | 8. > > PS: if you know someone noted is NOT on the mailing-list, do please > forward this email to them. > > [1] http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html > [2] http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001.en.html > [3] http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Wordlist > > Salam. > > - Nadim > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ >__ _______ It's here! Your new message! > Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar. > http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ > > ------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------
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