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India Eyeing Its Own Open Source Licence

Posted by Zonk on from the they're-everywhere! dept.

Guru Goo writes "Deepak Phatak of the Indian Institute of Technology,Mumbai has begun an effort to create an open-source license that will let programmers share ideas while also letting them retain the rights to their own software modifications.The license will likely function much like the Berkeley Software Distribution or the MIT License programs, he added. The number of open-source licenses has exploded, leaving many in the community miffed. But Phatak's proposal comes with the power of numbers. India's 1,750 colleges with computer science and electrical engineering degrees admit about 250,000 students a year. Combined with the outsourcing boom, that makes India one of the major centers for software development. While the collaboration between academia and industry in india is not as pervasive as in the U.S., it is growing."

3 of 162 comments (clear)

  1. Deepak Phatak? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    What an awesome name.

  2. Re:slightly offtopic... by quarkscat · · Score: 0, Troll

    Great!

    If India has some CEO/CTO/CFO types to spare,
    the USA could sure make use of them. We have
    far too many greedy, lying, thieving, morally
    challenged corporate officer types here that
    could stand to spend some time in a "moral values
    re-education facility"^H^H^H prison.

    Not to mention that working at 1/10th the price
    of our current corporate overlords would be
    great for corporate morale, the shareholders, and
    the bottom line.

  3. no one cares about deepak phatak by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    i am an indian and can tell you that before this story:

    -> no one knew about deepak phatak.
    -> no one cares about deepak phatak.
    -> indian IITs don't do research, they just produce graduates and wannabes for american companies.
    -> even if deepak phatak creates a license, it is as good as dog poop because there is NO RESEARCH going on in india. Nothing.zilch.nada.
    -> indian IITs are secluded, elitist institutions, which means they don't have any meaningful collaboration with the thousands of other engineering schools in india.
    -> there has been ABSOLUTELY NOTHING that has come out of IIT that has been of any use to india or the rest of the world.
    -> the GPL, BSD, Mozilla licenses,etc are all good and have been widely adopted.
    -> indians don't contribute to open source code. give me ONE NAME.
    -> deepak phatak creating a license does not mean india is creating its own license. it is just one man writing what he wants. sheesh.
    -> again, NO ONE CARES ABOUT DEEPAK PHATAK'S LICENSE and it won't be used by indians coz indians just don't do open source kind of thing.