Licensing Policy

The datasets available on the LDC-IL Data Distribution Portal can be downloaded under the license as approved by the 7th Project Advisory Commitee meeting. The prices of the datasets are calculated as per the reference approved in the 7th PAC meeting and following the costing guidelines as delineated in the policy document on Cost Analysis of Linguistic Resources. The main pointers under the licensing terms are as follows:

• The datasets are free for registered, not-for-profit academic and research organizations and people working for such organizations. This includes all government research organizations working for the government of India.
• The datasets are available to commercial organizations at a minimal cost.
• Datasets obtained freely for academic and research purposes can be used to develop not-for-profit applications only. Any derivatives obtained from such datasets obtained freely cannot be commercialized for private gains or purposes.
• Commercial entities can use the datasets to develop applicaions and other tools that can be commercialized.
• No entitiy, either public or private, commercial or non-commercial, can resell or re-distribute these datasets. Though derivatives can be sold or distributed following the terms and conditions as delineated for each of the datasets.
• Data requesters have to agree to a generic terms and conditions on the data distribution portal.