[Ilugc] License of Text books of Tamil Nadu School Books
- From: srini.it@xxxxxxxxx (Srinivasan Sundararajan)
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 09:50:58 +0530
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:41 PM, Guru Prasath <aprasadh at gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan at gmail.com
wrote:
Aren't the publicly funded textbooks by default in public domain? How can a
government say copyrighted? I am confused.
Quoting from
https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/
"To copyleft a program, we first state that it is copyrighted; then we add
distribution terms, which are a legal instrument that gives everyone the
rights to use, modify, and redistribute.... "
While genuine FOSS and Open Access groups tend to keep the spirit and
letter of 'openness", the babudom in government and even academia are
caught between their real/avowed objectives of serving the society and
yearning for control.
Fearing the potential abuse of freedom, the tendency is often to clamp
down the usage of materials and facilities or put them in the mire of
procedures & formalities. Thus, the first step of 'copy right' is taken,
but the next step of distribution attribution is left incomplete.
Srinivasan
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