<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Shrinivasan T</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:tshrinivasan@gmail.com">tshrinivasan@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 11:40 PM<br>Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: TamilVU Released 10 Tamil software as Free/Open Source Software<br>To: Mailing list for discussions about Tamil wikisource / தமிழ் விக்கிமூலம் <<a href="mailto:tawikisource@lists.wikimedia.org">tawikisource@lists.wikimedia.org</a>>, Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. <<a href="mailto:wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org">wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><p>Tamil Virtual Academy is a TN govt driven organization, which is working for Increasing Digital contents in Tamil Language.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>With the binaries, no one can learn them or develop further. We have been asking them to release the source code for long times.</p>
<p>Yesterday, got the news that they shared the source code here – <a href="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" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">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</a></p>
<p>It is a very happy news. Tons of thanks for all the TVA team and all TN Govt departments, officers behind this release.</p>
<p>I made a copy of all the code here <a href="https://github.com/Tamil-Virtual-Academy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/Tamil-Virtual-Academy</a> for better visibility. </p>
<p>At 2015, TVA announced that all their contents are released in CC-BY-SA license and all software with GPL v2 License.</p>
<div><br></div><div><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tamil-Virtual-Academy-Copyright-Declaration.jpg" target="_blank">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tamil-Virtual-Academy-Copyright-Declaration.jpg</a></div>
<p>It is a very progressive improvement in the world of free/open knowledge movement.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>See the announcement here too</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tamilvu.org/coresite/html/free-content-media.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.tamilvu.org/coresite/html/free-content-media.htm</a></p><a href="https://goinggnu.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/tva-cc-announcement.jpg" target="_blank">https://goinggnu.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/tva-cc-announcement.jpg</a>
<p>Here is a Government order by Tamilnadu govt announcing all the govt releases in Creative Commons license.</p><p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GoTN_Tamil_Development_Departments_order_on_creative_commons_cc_by_sa.pdf" target="_blank">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GoTN_Tamil_Development_Departments_order_on_creative_commons_cc_by_sa.pdf</a></p>
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<p>Tons of thanks for all the great people behind this great initiative.</p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Regards,<br>T.Shrinivasan<br><br><br>My Life with GNU/Linux : <a href="http://goinggnu.wordpress.com" target="_blank">http://goinggnu.wordpress.com</a><br>Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : <a href="http://kaniyam.com" target="_blank">http://kaniyam.com</a><br><br>Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer : <a href="http://FreeTamilEbooks.com" target="_blank">http://FreeTamilEbooks.com</a></div></div></div></div>
</div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Regards,<br>T.Shrinivasan<br><br><br>My Life with GNU/Linux : <a href="http://goinggnu.wordpress.com" target="_blank">http://goinggnu.wordpress.com</a><br>Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : <a href="http://kaniyam.com" target="_blank">http://kaniyam.com</a><br><br>Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer : <a href="http://FreeTamilEbooks.com" target="_blank">http://FreeTamilEbooks.com</a></div></div></div></div>
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