Open Government Data License Notified

[srinivas kodali]

In July, the IT Ministry released the draft open government data license for comments. It has been recently notified. 

The license release statement from IT Ministry is here. http://meity.gov.in/content/open-data

The notified license https://data.gov.in/sites/default/files/Government_Open_Data_Use_Licence_India.pdf

The draft license https://www.mygov.in/sites/default/files/mygov_1466767582190667.pdf

Datameet along with others have highlighted some important issues to the IT Ministry team in their public consultation. http://datameet.org/2016/08/07/draft-government-open-data-license/

It is unfortunate to see nothing changed. Most of our concerns about having continuos supply of information, having limited warranty and not having any exemptions defined through license have been ignored. 

The continuity of data is important, Indian Railways intends to sell its data and has failed to even implement NDSAP. The customs department has recently stopped publishing an important raw trade dataset without any notification or reason, this data was being published since 2010 before NDSAP came into force and was being used by many businesses. 

It needs to be noted we anticipated some of the issues which will arise around the license and the same thing in regards to exemptions occurred during the sikkim open data portal launch, they accidentally released sensitive data. http://datameet.org/2016/08/09/sikkim-data-portal-sensitive-information/

I am concerned with the current implementation and disregard for the community and the whole process of public consultation. 

Regards,

Srinivas Kodali

www.lostprogrammer.com