Viswam.AI, a ioint initiative of Swecha and IIIT Hyderabad, and SFLC.in released the new Draft License for consultation aimed to address critical gaps in current open source licenses, regarding data usage, attribution, and the definition of openness in the age of AI.
The License Draft release was announced at a roundtable “Understanding Trust and Safety in AI: From Code to Creativity” stakeholder consultation held at IIIT Hyderabad.
The draft license for consultation is available at: https://discuss.sflc.in/d/SBNXHa9k/viswam-ai-data-set-license-draft-for-discussion. A series of online and in-person public consultations to gain feedback on the draft of the license will be conducted soon.
“The Free and Open Source Software movement has been one of the most successful collaborative efforts in history. We are releasing the draft license for consultation to ensure proprietary models cannot simply appropriate our work without attribution. This paves the way for the release of community-contributed, crowdsourced datasets under a framework that guarantees community ownership and verifiability,” said Kiran Chandra Yarlagadda, Centre Head and Chief Technologist, VISWAM.AI, Founder, Swecha.
“We need a license to ensure that the rights of creators are protected and big tech companies do not appropriate the work of individuals and the community without even attributing them,” said Prasanth Sugathan, Legal Director, SFLC.in
Published – February 05, 2026 07:00 pm IST
