Tamil Virtual Academy is a TN govt driven organization, which is working
for Increasing Digital contents in Tamil Language.
It had funded few software projects at 2017 and released as only binaries.
Those software includes Tamil Spellchecker, text analysis, Browser plugin
for Tamil Text to speech etc.
With the binaries, no one can learn them or develop further. We have been
asking them to release the source code for long times.
Yesterday, got the news that they shared the source code here –
http://www.tamilvu.org/ta/content/%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B4%E0%A…
It is a very happy news. Tons of thanks for all the TVA team and all TN
Govt departments, officers behind this release.
I made a copy of all the code here
https://github.com/Tamil-Virtual-Academy
for better visibility.
At 2015, TVA announced that all their contents are released in CC-BY-SA
license and all software with GPL v2 License.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tamil-Virtual-Academy-Copyright-Dec…
It is a very progressive improvement in the world of free/open knowledge
movement.
We have seen only the western governments make these kind of decisions and
implement them. But happy to see the Tamilnadu govt is leading this in its
own way.
See the announcement here too
http://www.tamilvu.org/coresite/html/free-content-media.htm
https://goinggnu.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/tva-cc-announcement.jpg
Here is a Government order by Tamilnadu govt announcing all the govt
releases in Creative Commons license.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GoTN_Tamil_Development_Departments_…
Tons of thanks for all the great people behind this great initiative.
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Regards,
T.Shrinivasan
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Regards,
T.Shrinivasan
My Life with GNU/Linux :
http://goinggnu.wordpress.com
Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil :
http://kaniyam.com
Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer :
http://FreeTamilEbooks.com
