On Apr 23, 2014 9:47 AM, "Arun Prakash" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > > The books are only in PDF format and copyrighted by TamilNadu Government, > > > > It will be nice to release them in Creative Commons license or Public > > Domain License, with the source documents. > > > > With the source documents we can create epub.mobi and other formats > > for reading in mobiles/tablets/ebook readers. > > > > > > I wrote to > > schsec AT tn.gov.in, mdtntbc07 AT dataone.in, booksonline AT nic.in > > > > regarding this. > > > > Do you know whom to contact for this and request processes? > > > > I don't think so, talking to a single person will do this. It should be > raised in assembly and has to be accepted. Last TN assembly i think had a > word about free software, but nothing happened. You can also see the word > open source and open standards in political manifesto of major political > parties. > > I dont think doing commons licensing is possible now. It needs a bill to be > passed[1].
Though a bill can help , it can also be done other way around with bureaucratic help . Ncert has given its books under cc licence via bureaucratic route and not the legislative route. > > [1] http://copyright.gov.in/Documents/CopyrightRules1957.pdf > > -- > Regards, > Arun Prakash > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: > http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
