{"id":985667,"date":"2026-01-16T09:24:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985667"},"modified":"2026-01-16T10:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:07:08","slug":"no-mandate-from-govt-on-source-code-sharing-says-mait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/16\/no-mandate-from-govt-on-source-code-sharing-says-mait\/","title":{"rendered":"No mandate from govt on source code sharing, says MAIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Electronics and IT has not mandated the sharing of source code, a part of software that controls the functioning of technology devices, IT hardware manufacturers&#8217; body MAIT said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>It was recently reported that a draft document of the Manufacturers&#8217; Association for Information Technology (MAIT) has expressed views against the need for source code sharing by companies with testing labs as per the Indian Telecom Security Assurance Requirements (ITSAR).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Electronics and IT has not mandated the sharing of source code, a part of software that controls the functioning of technology devices, IT hardware manufacturers&#8217; body MAIT said on Wednesday. It was recently reported that a draft document of the Manufacturers&#8217; Association for Information Technology (MAIT) has expressed views against the need for source code sharing by companies with testing labs as per the Indian Telecom Security Assurance Requirements (ITSAR).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}