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 <[email protected]> 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 > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general > -- Hamed Al-Suhli| حامد السحلي http://e3rab.com Google talk: [email protected] Skype: hamed.fcs _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
