Re: [Ilugc] License of Text books of Tamil Nadu School Books

2014-04-24 Thread Guru Prasath
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Srinivasan Sundararajan wrote: > On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:41 PM, Guru Prasath wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Shrinivasan T > >wrote: > > > > > > > > Aren't the publicly funded textbooks by default in public domain? How > can a > > government say

Re: [Ilugc] License of Text books of Tamil Nadu School Books

2014-04-23 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:41 PM, Guru Prasath wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Shrinivasan T >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 copy

Re: [Ilugc] License of Text books of Tamil Nadu School Books

2014-04-23 Thread Guru Prasath
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Shrinivasan T wrote: > TamilNadu govt is publishing all the text books here. > http://www.textbooksonline.tn.nic.in > > The books are only in PDF format and copyrighted by TamilNadu Government, > > It will be nice to release them in Creative Commons license or Publ

Re: [Ilugc] License of Text books of Tamil Nadu School Books

2014-04-23 Thread sibi kanagaraj
HI , On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Arun Prakash wrote: > hi, > > > > > 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. > > \ > > > > Can you share t

Re: [Ilugc] License of Text books of Tamil Nadu School Books

2014-04-22 Thread Arun Prakash
hi, > > 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. > \ > Can you share the link. I ended up here: http://www.ncert.nic.in/ncerts/textbook/textbook.htm w

Re: [Ilugc] License of Text books of Tamil Nadu School Books

2014-04-22 Thread sibi kanagaraj
On Apr 23, 2014 9:47 AM, "Arun Prakash" 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 documen

Re: [Ilugc] License of Text books of Tamil Nadu School Books

2014-04-22 Thread Arun Prakash
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 mobil

[Ilugc] License of Text books of Tamil Nadu School Books

2014-04-22 Thread Shrinivasan T
TamilNadu govt is publishing all the text books here. http://www.textbooksonline.tn.nic.in 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 do