Oh well, so much for the closed license Arabic encyclopedia I mentioned few days ago! _Coz_ the people over there said no _but_ we are _Welcomed_ to provide a link to their sign-up-every-time-you-connect-to-our-web-site-because-we-can't-handle-cookies web site!
...Read on.
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Arabic encyclopedia Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 23:47:21 -0500 From: info info@intaaj.net Reply-To: info@intaaj.net To: Ahmad Al-rasheedan asr@baldi.cc
Dear sir, no you can't make use of our materials, coz we have a copy right sorry again. but you are welcome to make a note in your web site about our site and tell the visters to your site about our site
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Ahmad Al-rasheedan asr@baldi.cc Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 13:45:12 +0300
Dear sir,
I would like to congratulate you on the great work done on your electronic Arabic encyclopedia!
We are a group of Arabic speaking volunteers and we are looking after the Arabic encyclopedia (http://ar.wikipedia.org). The encyclopedia is open for everybody to edit, add, and modify. Our goal is to provide as much as possible of information in all fields to the Arabic speaking world.
We are a non profit group and we encourage you to make use of our electronic material at no coast since there are no copy rights to our material. Wikipedia charter prevents us from copying material from anywhere and place it in our Arabic encyclopedia without a clear permission from its rightfull owner. In an effort to enrich the Arabic speaking world, can we make use of your material and place it on our site for people to benifit? We will preserve the source of transferred material from your site to ours by making a note in the reference section.
-- Ahmad Al-rasheedan (http://webhost.fasttelco.com/asr)