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

[aboobacker sidheeque mk]

I don't think it is GPL license , it is just another propriety licence
? BTW If they closing source  to get revenue , How can they earn money
from free of cost products ?? .

On 3/25/14, Jahfar Ali <jahfar.ali at gmail.com> wrote:
> The licensing Jargons GPL, or some thing else does nt make a sense.
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> I think there is general agreement among the people that these efforts are
> made public, it enable more social impact. As govt. of india or Govt of
> kerala would be benifited out of it through improving the efficience of the
> society or particularly to its economy.
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> Again I pose the same question, which rule of the govt. or of the formation
> of these institute demands such hiding of the work.
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> I think only the RTI able to give an answer from the authority.
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> Any one filed a RTI??, knows procedure its procedure.
>
> I am not in TVM, any body in TVM can take it??
>
> Expecting people reply
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> Jahfar
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> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:23 PM, V. Sasi Kumar <sasi.cess at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 19:27 +0530, Jahfar Ali wrote:
>> > Hello All,
>> >
>> > 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. It is really disastrous.
>> >
>> >
>> > These policy making people are not aware of the open source
>> > initiatives. Still these policy makers want to close their work from
>> > public.
>> >
>> >
>> > Is there any way to use RTI to know the rules, which brings such
>> > hurdles.
>> >
>> >
>> > I would like to have a open discussion and legal plan to fight for a
>> > change..
>>
>> As far as CDAC is concerned, my understanding is that they are supposed
>> to generate something like 60% of their budget. Which means that they
>> have to utilise every opportunity of making money. Moreover, decisions
>> regarding matters like the licence used for software they create are
>> taken at their headquarter, where it is the government of India that
>> controls these things. So, any change has to start from the concerned
>> ministry. I guess the case of C-DIT also must be similar. Even as
>> scientists, we were encouraged to take patents for any small thing we
>> did. I guess these people do not understand the problems associated with
>> patents and licences.
>> >
>> > please add what we can do for this...
>>
>> I guess we have to lobby with the government of India to encourage such
>> institutes to licence their works under Free licences. We need to
>> convince them of the benefits to society that such licences give.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sasi
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