Jaijit Bhattacharya
ABSTRACT
The paper analyses existing open source licenses with the aim of choosing a license that is suitable for e-Governance projects. A method is presented for systematically choosing the most suitable license, which is applied to a selection of licenses, among which the Common Development and Distribution License is found to be the most suitable. An appropriate Open Source policy is extremely important for a sustainable e-Governance program.
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- Analysis of popular open source licenses and their applicability to e-governance
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