This package was debianized by Mohammad Derakhshani
<zekr.debian@gmail.com> on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:41:58 -0400.

The Quran translations were downloaded from
<http://www.siahe.com/zekr/resources.html>
and repackaged.

Upstream Author:
USC-MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/qmtintro.html
After downloading from the above site the translations
were packaged as zekr compatible Quran translations by
Mohsen Saboorian <mohsen@zekr.org> http://www.siahe.com/zekr

Copyright:
Debian packaging is (C) 2007, Mohammad Derakhshani
<zekr.debian@gmail.com>

yusufali.zip is a Quran translation by Abdullah Yusufali.
pickthall.zip is a Quran translation by Mohammed Marmaduke William
Pickthall.

Yusufali's and Pickthall's Qurans translations are copyright the
Islamic Computing Center:

THE ISLAMIC COMPUTING CENTRE,
73 St. Thomas's Road, London N4 2QJ U.K.
Tel:(071) 359 6233
Fax:(071) 226 2024

shakir.zip is a Quran Translation by M. H. Shakir.
Shakir's Quran translation is copyright Tahrike Tarsile Qur'an, Inc.,
P.O. Box 1115, Elmhurst, New York 11373.


License:
Theese Quran translations are NOT IN the Public domain,
and the copy rights of the files still remain with The Islamic
Computing Centre, and Tahrike Tarsile Qur'an, Inc.
It is NOT PERMITTED to distribute ANY OF THESE FILES for commercial
(or profit) purposes.

The Debian packaging is (C) 2007, Mohammad Derakhshani
<zekr.debian@gmail.com>. The license of this package gives the
permission for using and distributing for non-commercial purposes.

More Information:
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/qmtintro.html
The MSA of USC would like to acknowledge and thank the Islamic
Computing Centre for providing
the original file containing Yusuf Ali's and Marmaduke Mohammad
Pickthall's translations. Their address is:

    THE ISLAMIC COMPUTING CENTRE,
    73 St. Thomas's Road, London N4 2QJ U.K.
    Tel:(071) 359 6233
    Fax:(071) 226 2024

The files you find here (that is, the translated chapters of the
Qur'an) are NOT IN the Public domain, and the copy rights of the files
still remain with The Islamic Computing Centre.
It is NOT PERMITTED to distribute ANY OF THESE FILES for commercial
(or profit) purposes.

We also wish to thank M. H. Shakir for his translation of the Qur'an
which comes with the following message:

"These files are electronically scanned versions of M.H. Shakir's
translation of the Holy Qur'an, as published by Tahrike Tarsile
Qur'an, Inc., P.O. Box 1115, Elmhurst, New York 11373. The text has
passed through a preliminary editing, but is not yet error free. The
authentic version of this translation remains the hardcopy offered by
the aforementioned publishers, and can be purchased in many
bookstores."

