All the central ministries and departments will have to put the source code of software and applications, primarily related to eGovernance, developed by them in public domain.
“The Government of India aims to make public the source code of various software applications/ components/products as it may consider suitable and whose Intellectual Property Rights are held by various Government entities,” a new IT policy on application development said.
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