On Monday 19 Jan 2009, Na.Vijayashankar wrote:
> e-gazette is published by the Government itself.
>
> The question of license therefore does not arise.

Why not?  Any document has a licence associated with it, or it is in the
public domain.  If the latter, then redistribution is not a problem.  
If the former, then the terms of the licence would indicate whether the
document can be redistributed or not.

> We are discussing contents in http://egazette.nic.in/
>
> ITA 2000 had already enabled the issue of gazettes in electronic
> form.
>
> The website however does not represent the powers under Section 8 of
> ITA 2000 but is only publication of e-copies of paper based gazette
> notifications.

I'm referring to the licence of the paper copies, since the same licence
will apply to the soft copies.  Would GoI prevent, e.g. photocopying of
the paper copies and redistribution?  Or is that encouraged?  If it is
forbidden, can they be sure the paper gazettes don't get photocopied
and redistributed in government offices all over the country?  Will
they prosecute their own employees if they copy and share the gazette?

Regards,

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