Question in Indian parliament
From: Frederick Noronha (FN) (fred_at_bytesforall.org)
Date: 12/12/03
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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 15:03:03 CST
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Below is the text of a question raised in the Indian parliament:
Government of India * Ministry of Communications and Information
Technology * Departemnt of Information Technology * Rajya Sabha unstarred
question No 976 * To be answered on 11-12-2003
Promotion of Free/Libre and Open Source Software
Will the Minister of Comunications & Information Technology be pleased to
state:-
(a) what steps have been taken since the announcement of the Linux India
Initiative by Government on the issue of promoting free/libre and open
source software within the country;
(b) the level of usage of FLOSS products in Government and semi-Government
organisations; and
(c) whether the research benefits of publicly-funded computing
institutions would be made sharable to all, by placing the same under the
General Public Licence (GPL) or similar licences that do not restrict
sharing of knowledge due to copyright restrictions?
ANSWER
Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology (SU
Thirunavukkarasar)
(a): Two more consultative meetings have been held since then for in-depth
discussion on projects and policy positions to be taken -- one with the
Government and associated agencies and another with NGOs/Civil Society.
Various related initiatives, as planned, under Linux India Initiative
exercise are also being pursued.
(b): They are growing.
(c): Research benefits of publicly funded computing institutions are being
shared wherever appropriate. For instance, Centre for Development of
Advanced Computing (C-DAC) had added components relating to a number of
Indian languages for Linux available under General Public Licence (GPL) in
September, 2003. Similarly, open office solutions have been provided for
Indian languages under GPL developed by C-DAC, CollabCAD software
developed by National Informatics Centre (NIC) package has also been put
in a limited sharing mode within certain agencies of Government. C-DAC has
also put its Indian fonts in public domain. Wherever appropriate, software
developed under public funded efforts are being shared under GPL or
similar licenses that do not restrict the sharing of knowledge due to
copyright restrictions ****
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