Hi Ilario,
If you check this link https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/faq, you can find it written at the Terms and Conditions section - *The actual contents are subject to the copyright laws of the respective data providers as the authors or publishers retain copyright to these works which are used by NDL India with permission.*
It is the practice for any government agency like NDLI to sign a MoU or other form of contracts with other organizations, before engaging with them in any way. Although I can't speak for NDLI, but it is extremely likely that they have partnered with Worldebooklibrary and others officially.
Regards, Bodhisattwa
On Sat, 14 Mar 2020 at 23:38, Ilario valdelli valdelli@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you for that,
I have checked some languages but it seems that this digital library have books of some languages completely taken from Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org) or from World Ebook Library (http://www.worldebooklibrary.org/) and they have their own licenses.
It's not clear what is the library for whom the NDLI owns the copyrights and they can donate.
Kind regards
On 14/03/2020 09:38, Bodhisattwa Mandal wrote:
Through this understanding, we will work together on:
- integrating Wikisource and Wikidata contents on NDLI website. <https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/> - building up technical infrastructure on NDLI website to crowdsource metadata curation on Wikidata and proofreading on Wikisourcewebsites.
- importing relevant contents and data from NDLI website to Wikidataand
Wikisource. - identifying and pursuing collaboration opportunities around other Wikimedia projects, such as Wikibooks.-- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera Switzerland - 8008 Zürich Wikipedia: Ilario Skype: valdelli Tel: +41764821371 http://www.wikimedia.ch