Rakesh 'arky' Ambati wrote:
As pointed out by Pai, NASSCOM has a charter to be watchdog for legal use of software, it an assocation that _enforceses_.An organisation that works for Free Software should have its goal to educate not enforce.
Sometimes the freedom might need to be enforced. A case in point. http://www.apnic.net/mailing-lists/s-asia-it/archive/2001/07/msg00004.html
When cases of GPL violation happens of Free software developed outside the country, the original software developers are quite helpless in doing much about it in India rather than put up notices on their web pages, and a few emails.
We need a watchdog in India to see the the freedom of software is maintained. Since the software is owned by the community, there is right now no formal body to watch for the software.
The other point of view might be that we concentrate on people "giving" only, rather than people "taking" and not "giving" back.
- Sandip