Re: Bug#579796: ITP: othman -- electronic Quran browser in Python
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 10:24:54PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Without getting deeper in the licensing of Othman itself, would you
> consider the text of the Coran itself to be DFSG-free? I _think_ that
> any religious text can only be distributed verbatim, not modified in
> any way - That is completely legitimate, as it has been debated over
> and over regarding the IETF RFCs.
The Koran is definitely out of copyright, and thus in the public domain.
While altering the actual text may be pointless (and disrespectful for the
religion in question), it is still allowed, at least in a vast majority of
countries. And taking excerpts or adding commentary is a damn popular thing
to do.
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