Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Masroor Ahmad <[email protected]>
* Package name : hadith Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Masroor Ahmad <[email protected]> * URL : https://github.com/masroorahmd/fortune-hadith * License : GPL-3+ (code), public-domain (1905 text), CC0-1.0 (modernisation) Programming Lang: Shell, Python Description : sayings of the Prophet Muhammad(saw), in the shape of fortune hadith prints a saying of the Prophet Muhammad(saw), chosen at random, the way fortune(6) prints a cookie. Run from a shell profile it gives one saying a login; run with -m it is a plain-text search over the corpus. . The corpus is "The Sayings of Muhammad", collected and translated by Abdullah al-Mamun al-Suhrawardy and published in 1905: 439 sayings arranged over 85 topics, plus four the book prints in its preamble. It is in the public domain in the United States and in Europe. . The sayings are shipped twice. hadith-suhrawardy is a modernisation of Suhrawardy's Victorian English -- "pays" for "payeth", "you" for "thou" -- made so that they read as living language rather than as a museum piece. hadith-suhrawardy-1905 is the original wording unaltered, installed beside it so that every change made stays a diff a reader can check. The source builds two binary packages: hadith - the command fortunes-hadith - the cookie files, usable with fortune(6) on their own On the licensing, since that is what a data package lives or dies by: * The 1905 text is public domain. Suhrawardy died in 1935 and the book was published before 1930, so the term has expired in the United States, in the EU and in the United Kingdom where it was published. * The source scan is of a later reprint. Only the 1905 sayings are taken from it; the reprint's own preface and introduction are still in copyright and are excluded by the parser. * The modernisation of the English is my own work and is dedicated to the public domain under CC0-1.0. The 1905 wording ships beside it, so the whole of the change is a diff a reviewer can check. * The packaging and tooling are GPL-3+. debian/copyright accounts for every file, and DATA-LICENSE.md in the source states the same per file in prose. Precedent for a package of this shape: display-dhammapada and bible-kjv are both in main on a public-domain declaration for their text, and the split into a command package plus a data package follows bible-kjv / bible-kjv-text. I am not a Debian Developer and will be looking for a sponsor for the upload.
