[smc-discuss] Malayalam Annotated Corpus released

[Aboobacker MK]

But license file in the above zip prohibits sharing, and using for
commercial purpose. So basically it is just a EULA, not an open source
license we can relay on. May be they should follow central government
policy before we invest time on this



On Mon 16 Apr, 2018 2:07 pm manoj k, <manojkmohanme03107 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:39 AM, Ashik <aashiks at aashiks.in> wrote:
>
>> Pirate Praveen <praveen at onenetbeyond.org> writes:
>>
>> >> I do nt have any idea about the legality of this licence. It is an
>> >> outcome of Govt funded project.
>> >> I think you do not worry much about it.
>> >> It was funded by Deity. So they have the ownership ultimately.
>> >
>> > Hi Jahfar,
>> >
>> > You can try to convince them to release it under a Free Software
>> license.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Praveen
>> >
>>
>>
>> Licensing is a problem. If the license is unclear, any work that we base
>> off off this is going to be wasteful. So far, the government has had a
>> primitive stance on licensing. Unless this is licensed under some form
>> of free as in freedom license, I find it worthless as a community
>> asset. I am not going to touch it with a long pole, and I caution
>> against the dangers of assuming that we don't have to worry much.
>>
>
> Hey Check this National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy –
> Government of India
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Data_Sharing_and_Accessibility_Policy_%E2%80%93_Government_of_India>
>
> Government have strong policy for open data. Please go ahead with
> (Government Open Data License - India)
>
> Here is the Gazette_Notification_OGDL
> https://data.gov.in/sites/default/files/Gazette_Notification_OGDL.pdf
>
>
>>
>> I am with Praveen on this.
>>
>> --
>> aashik
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