[smc-discuss] Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] TamilVU Released 10 Tamil software as Free/Open Source Software

[manoj k]

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From: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 11:40 PM
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: TamilVU Released 10 Tamil software as
Free/Open Source Software
To: Mailing list for discussions about Tamil wikisource / தமிழ் விக்கிமூலம்
<tawikisource at lists.wikimedia.org>, Discussion list on Indian language
projects of Wikimedia. <wikimediaindia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>

Tamil Virtual Academy is a TN govt driven organization, which is working
for Increasing Digital contents in Tamil Language.

It had funded few software projects at 2017 and released as only binaries.
Those software includes Tamil Spellchecker, text analysis, Browser plugin
for Tamil Text to speech etc.

With the binaries, no one can learn them or develop further. We have been
asking them to release the source code for long times.

Yesterday, got the news that they shared the source code here –
http://www.tamilvu.org/ta/content/%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B4%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%A3%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B3%E0%AF%8D

It is a very happy news. Tons of thanks for all the TVA team and all TN
Govt departments, officers behind this release.

I made a copy of all the code here https://github.com/Tamil-Virtual-Academy
for better visibility.

At 2015, TVA announced that all their contents are released in CC-BY-SA
license and all software with GPL v2 License.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tamil-Virtual-Academy-Copyright-Declaration.jpg

It is a very progressive improvement in the world of free/open knowledge
movement.

We have seen only the western governments make these kind of decisions and
implement them. But happy to see the Tamilnadu govt is leading this in its
own way.

See the announcement here too

http://www.tamilvu.org/coresite/html/free-content-media.htm
https://goinggnu.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/tva-cc-announcement.jpg

Here is a Government order by Tamilnadu govt announcing all the govt
releases in Creative Commons license.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GoTN_Tamil_Development_Departments_order_on_creative_commons_cc_by_sa.pdf

Tons of thanks for all the great people behind this great initiative.


-- 
Regards,
T.Shrinivasan


My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com
Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com

Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer :
http://FreeTamilEbooks.com


-- 
Regards,
T.Shrinivasan


My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com
Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com

Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer :
http://FreeTamilEbooks.com
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