[smc-discuss] Like to bring all your attention related IT policy of some of the state funded institutions

[aboobacker sidheeque mk]

" however available under a somewhat awkward license that
is called GPL but restricted to personal use. " can you please explain
what you mean by this ? :-)

On 3/24/14, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <sankarshan.mukhopadhyay at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Jahfar Ali <jahfar.ali at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I came to know that some of the public funded institutions like C-DIT and
>> CDAC,Tvm has statutory regulation against to open up their source code as
>> well as other product information for public. So, none of their language
>> computing source code or data is available for public, even for research
>> or
>> social cause.
>
> I was not aware that there exists a written policy preventing the
> source code(base) being made available under a libre license. The
> "products" are however available under a somewhat awkward license that
> is called GPL but restricted to personal use. Or, perhaps the
> situation has changed in recent times, I'd like to know.
>
>
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