[Debian-islamic-commits] [SCM] Packaging for hijra branch, master, updated. upstream/0.1.18-27-geddb38a
أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy)
aelmahmoudy at sabily.org
Sat Jun 26 15:13:55 UTC 2010
The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit eddb38afff0dfbc65c0a055b9782906cc0c61941
Author: أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) <aelmahmoudy at sabily.org>
Date: Sat Jun 26 18:13:09 2010 +0300
Converted copyright file to machine-readable format and corrected
upstream copyright years
diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
index 8e8c57c..da2dcbf 100644
--- a/debian/copyright
+++ b/debian/copyright
@@ -1,244 +1,251 @@
-This package was debianized by أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) <aelmahmoudy at sabily.org> on
-Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:05:35 +0200.
-
-It was downloaded from http://hijra.ojuba.org/
-
-Upstream Author:
-
- Muayyad Saleh Alsadi <alsadi at ojuba.org>
-
-Copyright:
-
- Copyright © 2008 Muayyad Saleh Alsadi
-
-License:
-
- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
-
- In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
-
- "Waqf" General Public License
-
- This is the informal English translation of Waqf General Public License.
- Anything but the Arabic version of the license has no value except for
- convenience of our English speaking users. When we talk about the License
- we refer to the Arabic version, which is the only one we officially
- offer, we will try our best to make other translation as accurate as
- possible but because of the nature of human languages we use one single
- reference language.
-
- Preamble
-
- Publishing any intellectual work (including but not limited to books and
- Computer Software) is not done by selling even if it appeared to be so,
- but it's about getting an implied license that has no enforcement without
- the concept of intellectual property granted by man-made laws which was
- acquired as they claim to promote the publication of science and the
- useful arts. The concept of the so called “intellectual property” is
- centered around giving ownership to the first one who register the work
- (called owner or copyright holder and we will refer to him/her/it as
- holder) then the holder practice his rights on the work in it's intangible
- form on any media it's carried, and thus using the intellectual work
- without explicit prior permission is according to them ethically
- equivalent to hijacking ships or “piracy” as they call it. This permission
- is called License and it's aimed to give the holder (usually the
- publisher) an advantage in the market against other publishers through
- monopoly on providing that work by imposing restrictions on the users not
- the publishers. Such works are called “Proprietary”.
-
- We see that such agreements (proprietary licenses) are evil, but we also
- acknowledge that making an agreement with a prior intention to violate it
- is another immoral evil ^1). We don't solve problems with problems, we
- offer an alternative.
-
- We have a different vision, we offer our work (like computer software) to
- please Allah, and this is the pillar of this license which distinguish it
- from proprietary licenses. Any other intention (like spreading knowledge
- or getting profits) should be accomplished in ways that does not go
- against our primary moral aim.
-
- According to our believes (which we don't enforce on any one, and you may
- or may not share it with us) that Islam certainly forbids monopoly and
- concealing knowledge in general, and this comes from:
-
- * The sound Hadith (saying of prophet Muhammad PBUH): “Who conceal any
- type of knowledge will be bridle with a bridle of fire on the Day of
- Resurrection.” ^2)
- * Islamic Jurisprudence has specified what can be owned, and the rules
- does not apply to ideas as it's not a bounded tangible object and
- almost all the terms of proprietary agreements fall in ruling of
- forbidden Gharar^3) (a kind of fraud that use uncertainty to
- fool the customers) as we see in Imam Muslim Sahih description of that
- term {and below that term we classify so many actions like selling
- negligible objects or unknowns or what can't be delivered or things
- that are not full owned by the seller} and such view is also shared by
- the four major scholars.
- * The laws of Fiqh (Islamic Jurisprudence) have been perfected in the
- good centuries and no new rulings are allowed to be brought except for
- newly discovered things and this does not apply ideas as they did
- exist in the past centuries and Muslims massively spread them without
- owning them. FYI: Almost all the Islamic literature is freely
- available on the internet.
- * Concealing useful knowledge from those who need it impose damage to
- people for temporal gains to few individuals. This can not be
- justified by Shari'a (Islamic Law), it's only justified by
- individualist capitalism ^4)
- * Even bringing interests to software publishers is not a valid excuse
- because there are some companies produce and publish software without
- owning them (proprietary software) and yet they gain profits.
- * the so call “Intellectual Proprietary” is all about giving owners the
- right to forbid what Allah had made lawful to gain money, not by
- providing service nor goods.
- * The uncertainty and untangable nature of the claimed owned product is
- the source of “protection money collecting” where some company
- threaten some smaller company by copyright infringement lawsuit on
- some purposely ambiguous product which the later can't afford so they
- go safe and pay.
-
- If the good intentions made excuses to introduce “intellectual
- proprietary” by the Machiavellists who wrote the American constitution
- as an acquired right (at least they admit it's not a natural right), they
- serve their own way of life which is not international. We don't take
- that. We have our own high moral standards. We introduce Waqf General
- Public License to place it among the anti-copyright licenses. This license
- is designed to grant rights to users not to restrict them, it's uses the
- concept of copyleft/copy-wrong as opposed to the concept of copyright.
-
- Computer software, Medicine formula or even poems are considered to be
- intellectual works and thus can be covered by “Waqf”. An intellectual work
- is any useful idea that can be delivered or utilized by people. “Waqf” is
- not meant for ideas in general, but for intellectual work which is
- beneficial to people if published. As we support protecting privacy for
- example one shouldn't publish names of his customers, bid prices,
- government military or political secrets because those are not
- intellectual works.
-
- We should clarify two things:
-
- * First: The favor and ethical rights of the holder are preserved and
- acknowledged
- * Second: original author and any other party (if they have the
- intention and the ability) have the right to get fees on enhancing the
- work or developing it or to provide paid services or paid courses
- …etc. but not the work in its intangible form. There is not
- contradiction between getting fees on services because what is covered
- by “Waqf” is the source form of the work not the media nor the service
- (the same way one can take fees on shipping fruits for a charitable
- Waqf fruit field or make juice)
-
- Definitions
-
- The following terms would have the corresponding meanings in this license
-
- * The intellectual work (or The work for short): is any useful
- intangible intellectual product that can be passed on to others or
- replicated withno cost imposed on the original author or the one who
- pass it on before.
- * The holder: is the creative author or the party which carried the
- process of developing the work and make it available (and the one who
- holds the copyrights on the product before the governmental offices).
- * the licensee or the user: any one or party who uses the work (runs,
- copies, modifies or otherwise takes benefits provided by the work).
- * The license: this agreement (the Arabic version of “Waqf”) between the
- two parties (the holder and the user) covering the usage of the second
- party on the work provided by the first party. The usage of the
- product is with accordance to the terms of this license. And because
- of the intangible nature of the work, this agreement applies by using
- the product (in any way) without signing the agreement. One do not
- accept the terms looses the rights given by this license and his/her
- usage of the work is considered illegal and will be sued.
-
- The Terms
-
- Waqf General Public license (or “Waqf” for short) covers intellectual
- works (including but not limited to Software and paper publications,
- scientific theses, art works) and have many common features with FLOSS
- licenses. Waf is distinguished with its moral intentions behind the work
- and usage limits.
-
- As the name suggests, with “Waqf” ^5) the holder announce his/her work
- was produced and made available to the public for the sake of Allah aimed
- to please Allah by providing people with useful works. It's a form of
- “Sadaqa Jariah” ^6).
-
- “Waqf” gives users (regardless of their nationality, color, race,
- religion) the right to benefit from the work with running, copying,
- redistribution, or even develop and only with according to the following
-
- * First - Usage :
-
- The user may use the work for any good purpose and he may not use it to
- harm others or violate the permissive principles of Islam ^7). Notice
- that any work that is most likely harmful can't be put under Waqf in the
- first place.
-
- * Second - Redistribution :
-
- The user have the right to redistribute the unmodified work in any
- quantity to any third party under the terms of this license, acknowledging
- the favor and ethical rights of the holder to the third party.
-
- * Third - Modifications :
-
- The user has the right to get the source form of the work and make
- modifications enhancing or adopting to the user's needs to the limits
- given by this license.
-
- * Fourth - Redistribute modifications:
-
- The user can redistribute modifications only under this license provided
- that he points to previous original work (the unmodified work) and its
- author and the nature of modification clearly to the third party to whom
- the modified work is presented in a way that no one may reasonably get
- confused between it and the original unmodified work of the previous
- author.
-
- * Fourth - Disclaimer of responsibility :
-
- The holder does not take any legal nor moral direct or indirect
- responsibility nor liability on the good or bad usage or damages caused by
- the work to the farthest level allowed by the law. THIS SOFTWARE IS
- PROVIDED AS IS AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
- LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A
- PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED BY THE HOLDER.
-
- The entire responsibility is on the user and the only warranty given to
- him is the source of the work.
-
- Conclusion
-
- Applying Waqf public license help to spread the awareness of dangers
- caused by intellectual property. And provide people with a legal
- alternative even though we don't believe on the validity of such man made
- laws.
-
- ^1) http://www.islam-qa.com/ar/ref/454
- ^2) This is an authentic sound/Sahih as it's narrated by Imam
- Ahmad, Abu Dawood, AlTirmithi and Ibn Majah. Refer to “Hoisting the
- Lighthouse : A synopsis of the Various narrations of the Hadith: Whoever
- conceals knowledge, Allah will bridle him with a bridle of fire” or in
- Arabic “رفع المنار بطرق حديث من كتم علماً ألجمه الله بلجام من نار”.
- ^3) Some information about Ghrar is available at
- http://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/gharar.asp
- ^4) Although Islamic economy is a kind of liberal capitalism economy
- but it's regulated with so many moral rulings that guarantee social
- justice
- ^5) The name Waqf means to prevent the source or assets from being
- consumed while giving away for charity the proceeds.
- ^6) Sadaqa Jariah means sustainable charity which is a kind of charity
- that continue to be beneficial to people even after the death of the one
- who give it like giving the fruits of a field but not the field, more over
- prophet Muhammad PBUH specifically named useful knowledge as a form of
- that kind of charity.
- ^7) Some scholars use the term Maqasid Alsharia and summarize them by
- saying that it aims to protect people rights in religion, lives, sanity,
- breed, and properties.
-
-
- The Arabic version of the license can be found in
- /usr/share/doc/python-hijra/LICENSE-ar.txt.gz and
- /usr/share/doc/hijra-applet/LICENSE-ar.txt.gz
-
-The Debian packaging is © 2008-2009, أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy)
-<aelmahmoudy at sabily.org> and is licensed under the Waqf Public
-License.
+Format-Specification: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/dep/web/deps/dep5.mdwn?op=file&rev=59
+Maintainer: Muayyad Saleh Alsadi <alsadi at ojuba.org>
+Source: http://hijra.ojuba.org
+Name: Hijra
+
+Files: *
+Copyright: 2006-2008, Muayyad Alsadi <alsadi at ojuba.org>
+License: Waqf Public License
+ بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
+
+ In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
+
+ "Waqf" General Public License
+
+ This is the informal English translation of Waqf General Public License.
+ Anything but the Arabic version of the license has no value except for
+ convenience of our English speaking users. When we talk about the License
+ we refer to the Arabic version, which is the only one we officially
+ offer, we will try our best to make other translation as accurate as
+ possible but because of the nature of human languages we use one single
+ reference language.
+
+ Preamble
+
+ Publishing any intellectual work (including but not limited to books and
+ Computer Software) is not done by selling even if it appeared to be so,
+ but it's about getting an implied license that has no enforcement without
+ the concept of intellectual property granted by man-made laws which was
+ acquired as they claim to promote the publication of science and the
+ useful arts. The concept of the so called “intellectual property” is
+ centered around giving ownership to the first one who register the work
+ (called owner or copyright holder and we will refer to him/her/it as
+ holder) then the holder practice his rights on the work in it's intangible
+ form on any media it's carried, and thus using the intellectual work
+ without explicit prior permission is according to them ethically
+ equivalent to hijacking ships or “piracy” as they call it. This permission
+ is called License and it's aimed to give the holder (usually the
+ publisher) an advantage in the market against other publishers through
+ monopoly on providing that work by imposing restrictions on the users not
+ the publishers. Such works are called “Proprietary”.
+
+ We see that such agreements (proprietary licenses) are evil, but we also
+ acknowledge that making an agreement with a prior intention to violate it
+ is another immoral evil ^1). We don't solve problems with problems, we
+ offer an alternative.
+
+ We have a different vision, we offer our work (like computer software) to
+ please Allah, and this is the pillar of this license which distinguish it
+ from proprietary licenses. Any other intention (like spreading knowledge
+ or getting profits) should be accomplished in ways that does not go
+ against our primary moral aim.
+
+ According to our believes (which we don't enforce on any one, and you may
+ or may not share it with us) that Islam certainly forbids monopoly and
+ concealing knowledge in general, and this comes from:
+
+ * The sound Hadith (saying of prophet Muhammad PBUH): “Who conceal any
+ type of knowledge will be bridle with a bridle of fire on the Day of
+ Resurrection.” ^2)
+ * Islamic Jurisprudence has specified what can be owned, and the rules
+ does not apply to ideas as it's not a bounded tangible object and
+ almost all the terms of proprietary agreements fall in ruling of
+ forbidden Gharar^3) (a kind of fraud that use uncertainty to
+ fool the customers) as we see in Imam Muslim Sahih description of that
+ term {and below that term we classify so many actions like selling
+ negligible objects or unknowns or what can't be delivered or things
+ that are not full owned by the seller} and such view is also shared by
+ the four major scholars.
+ * The laws of Fiqh (Islamic Jurisprudence) have been perfected in the
+ good centuries and no new rulings are allowed to be brought except for
+ newly discovered things and this does not apply ideas as they did
+ exist in the past centuries and Muslims massively spread them without
+ owning them. FYI: Almost all the Islamic literature is freely
+ available on the internet.
+ * Concealing useful knowledge from those who need it impose damage to
+ people for temporal gains to few individuals. This can not be
+ justified by Shari'a (Islamic Law), it's only justified by
+ individualist capitalism ^4)
+ * Even bringing interests to software publishers is not a valid excuse
+ because there are some companies produce and publish software without
+ owning them (proprietary software) and yet they gain profits.
+ * the so call “Intellectual Proprietary” is all about giving owners the
+ right to forbid what Allah had made lawful to gain money, not by
+ providing service nor goods.
+ * The uncertainty and untangable nature of the claimed owned product is
+ the source of “protection money collecting” where some company
+ threaten some smaller company by copyright infringement lawsuit on
+ some purposely ambiguous product which the later can't afford so they
+ go safe and pay.
+
+ If the good intentions made excuses to introduce “intellectual
+ proprietary” by the Machiavellists who wrote the American constitution
+ as an acquired right (at least they admit it's not a natural right), they
+ serve their own way of life which is not international. We don't take
+ that. We have our own high moral standards. We introduce Waqf General
+ Public License to place it among the anti-copyright licenses. This license
+ is designed to grant rights to users not to restrict them, it's uses the
+ concept of copyleft/copy-wrong as opposed to the concept of copyright.
+
+ Computer software, Medicine formula or even poems are considered to be
+ intellectual works and thus can be covered by “Waqf”. An intellectual work
+ is any useful idea that can be delivered or utilized by people. “Waqf” is
+ not meant for ideas in general, but for intellectual work which is
+ beneficial to people if published. As we support protecting privacy for
+ example one shouldn't publish names of his customers, bid prices,
+ government military or political secrets because those are not
+ intellectual works.
+
+ We should clarify two things:
+
+ * First: The favor and ethical rights of the holder are preserved and
+ acknowledged
+ * Second: original author and any other party (if they have the
+ intention and the ability) have the right to get fees on enhancing the
+ work or developing it or to provide paid services or paid courses
+ …etc. but not the work in its intangible form. There is not
+ contradiction between getting fees on services because what is covered
+ by “Waqf” is the source form of the work not the media nor the service
+ (the same way one can take fees on shipping fruits for a charitable
+ Waqf fruit field or make juice)
+
+ Definitions
+
+ The following terms would have the corresponding meanings in this license
+
+ * The intellectual work (or The work for short): is any useful
+ intangible intellectual product that can be passed on to others or
+ replicated withno cost imposed on the original author or the one who
+ pass it on before.
+ * The holder: is the creative author or the party which carried the
+ process of developing the work and make it available (and the one who
+ holds the copyrights on the product before the governmental offices).
+ * the licensee or the user: any one or party who uses the work (runs,
+ copies, modifies or otherwise takes benefits provided by the work).
+ * The license: this agreement (the Arabic version of “Waqf”) between the
+ two parties (the holder and the user) covering the usage of the second
+ party on the work provided by the first party. The usage of the
+ product is with accordance to the terms of this license. And because
+ of the intangible nature of the work, this agreement applies by using
+ the product (in any way) without signing the agreement. One do not
+ accept the terms looses the rights given by this license and his/her
+ usage of the work is considered illegal and will be sued.
+
+ The Terms
+
+ Waqf General Public license (or “Waqf” for short) covers intellectual
+ works (including but not limited to Software and paper publications,
+ scientific theses, art works) and have many common features with FLOSS
+ licenses. Waf is distinguished with its moral intentions behind the work
+ and usage limits.
+
+ As the name suggests, with “Waqf” ^5) the holder announce his/her work
+ was produced and made available to the public for the sake of Allah aimed
+ to please Allah by providing people with useful works. It's a form of
+ “Sadaqa Jariah” ^6).
+
+ “Waqf” gives users (regardless of their nationality, color, race,
+ religion) the right to benefit from the work with running, copying,
+ redistribution, or even develop and only with according to the following
+
+ * First - Usage :
+
+ The user may use the work for any good purpose and he may not use it to
+ harm others or violate the permissive principles of Islam ^7). Notice
+ that any work that is most likely harmful can't be put under Waqf in the
+ first place.
+
+ * Second - Redistribution :
+
+ The user have the right to redistribute the unmodified work in any
+ quantity to any third party under the terms of this license, acknowledging
+ the favor and ethical rights of the holder to the third party.
+
+ * Third - Modifications :
+
+ The user has the right to get the source form of the work and make
+ modifications enhancing or adopting to the user's needs to the limits
+ given by this license.
+
+ * Fourth - Redistribute modifications:
+
+ The user can redistribute modifications only under this license provided
+ that he points to previous original work (the unmodified work) and its
+ author and the nature of modification clearly to the third party to whom
+ the modified work is presented in a way that no one may reasonably get
+ confused between it and the original unmodified work of the previous
+ author.
+
+ * Fourth - Disclaimer of responsibility :
+
+ The holder does not take any legal nor moral direct or indirect
+ responsibility nor liability on the good or bad usage or damages caused by
+ the work to the farthest level allowed by the law. THIS SOFTWARE IS
+ PROVIDED AS IS AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
+ LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A
+ PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED BY THE HOLDER.
+
+ The entire responsibility is on the user and the only warranty given to
+ him is the source of the work.
+
+ Conclusion
+
+ Applying Waqf public license help to spread the awareness of dangers
+ caused by intellectual property. And provide people with a legal
+ alternative even though we don't believe on the validity of such man made
+ laws.
+
+ ^1) http://www.islam-qa.com/ar/ref/454
+ ^2) This is an authentic sound/Sahih as it's narrated by Imam
+ Ahmad, Abu Dawood, AlTirmithi and Ibn Majah. Refer to “Hoisting the
+ Lighthouse : A synopsis of the Various narrations of the Hadith: Whoever
+ conceals knowledge, Allah will bridle him with a bridle of fire” or in
+ Arabic “رفع المنار بطرق حديث من كتم علماً ألجمه الله بلجام من نار”.
+ ^3) Some information about Ghrar is available at
+ http://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/gharar.asp
+ ^4) Although Islamic economy is a kind of liberal capitalism economy
+ but it's regulated with so many moral rulings that guarantee social
+ justice
+ ^5) The name Waqf means to prevent the source or assets from being
+ consumed while giving away for charity the proceeds.
+ ^6) Sadaqa Jariah means sustainable charity which is a kind of charity
+ that continue to be beneficial to people even after the death of the one
+ who give it like giving the fruits of a field but not the field, more over
+ prophet Muhammad PBUH specifically named useful knowledge as a form of
+ that kind of charity.
+ ^7) Some scholars use the term Maqasid Alsharia and summarize them by
+ saying that it aims to protect people rights in religion, lives, sanity,
+ breed, and properties.
+
+
+ The Arabic version of the license can be found in
+ /usr/share/doc/python-hijra/LICENSE-ar.txt.gz
+
+Files: debian/*
+Copyright: 2008-2010, أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) <aelmahmoudy at sabily.org>
+License: GPL-3+
+ This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
+
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+ On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU GPL3 licenses can be found at
+ `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'.
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