Cool, didn't knew about that, I'll try to research a little more. Being not only a 'social movement' but a true new Social Contract, GPL licence and it's derivatives could be -and indeed it is at some excent- a *real* political force that can change the face of our planet.
The best part is it already demonstrated it works, it's not just a speech, is something that actually works. 2010/11/25, Nicolás Reynolds <[email protected]>: > Parece que es del 99 la propuesta, alguno/a sabe si llegó a algo? > > Title: A general public license for seeds? > Author: Michel Bauwens > Date: mar, 23 nov 2010 11:48:15 -0300 > Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/P2pFoundation/~3/XP2__nxNkN8/23 > > Context from Sepp Hasslberger: > > “The same multinational corporations that are putting their proprietary, > genetically modified plants into the envorinment and onto our tables are > also well on the way to establishing a monopoly …on seeds. They have > purchased the majority of commercial seed companies and the choices for > farmers to use non-GM seeds are getting fewer and fewer. > > So here is a counter-proposal. Following the example of what was done > for free and open source software with a “General Public License” (GPL), > Jack Kloppenburg is proposing to establish a GPLPG (General Public > License for Plant Germplasm) license for seeds and plant varieties that > allows free use of the plants by farmers and growers, but prevents any > so licensed seeds or plants from being subsequently altered and made > commercial. > > The license imposes on subsequent users of the Plant Germplasm (the > seeds or plants) that any new varieties developed on the basis of those > plants be similarly licensed for free use.” > > Background[1] excerpted from a paper by Jack Kloppenburg: > > “The specific mechanism Michaels goes on to propose is a “General Public > License for Plant Germplasm (GPLPG)” that is explicitly modeled on the > GPL developed by the FOSS movement for software. > > For Michaels, creating the GPLPG involves a straightforward adaptation > of the GPL. Plant scientists would supply germplasm to other parties > accompanied by a Materials Transfer Agreement (MTA) specifying the > conditions under which the material is being made available. Those > conditions would include copyleft provisions permitting (indeed, > encouraging) further development and recombination and improvement of > the germplasm, but requiring that any lines or cultivars “derived in > whole or in part from GPL plant germplasm must likewise be made > available to others under GPLPG and without further restriction for use > in subsequent breeding programs” (Michaels 1999). > > This mechanism is simple, elegant, and effective. No new law is > required; like the “shrinkwrap” license already common to software and > commercial seed sales, the GPLPG is based on existing contract law. No > patenting or PBR protection is necessary; again, the GPLPG is based on > existing contract law, not on IPR statutes. The GPLPG is enforceable in > existing law; just like the “shrink-wrap” license already common to > software and commercial seed sales (Technology Use Agreements), there > are statutory legal consequences for those who violate the license > provisions. The vehicle for the GPLPG, the MTA, is familiar to the plant > science community; the MTA is now the standard mechanism for germplasm > exchanges in universities, government agencies, private companies, and > the international system and scientists and administrators are > accustomed to its use. > > The GPLPG can be used for patented or otherwise IPR protected materials; > if an owner chooses to release IPR-protected materials under the GPLPG, > those IPR provisions are not enforced against GPLPG licensees. The > GPLPG is compatible with a flow of benefits to the breeder; royalties > may be charged for reproduction and distribution of lines, but not on > subsequent uses or distributions by others. The GPLPG is compatible > with commercial seed sales; seed of GPLPG lines maybe reproduced and > sold, but the vendor has no claim on subsequent uses or distributions. > GPLPG seed will not be attractive for appropriation and incorporation > into proprietary breeding programs; the “viral” nature of the license > requires that any derivative lines developed using GPLPG germplasm > must also be distributed under the GPLPG, thus eliminating the > possibility of capturing monopoly profits from downstream and > derivative applications and uses. > > In sum, the GPLPG is sufficiently simple to be used by many different > actors (individual farmers, communities, indigenous peoples, plant > scientists, universities, non-governmental organizations, government > agencies, and private companies) in many places and diverse > circumstances. Properly deployed, it could be an effective mechanism > for creating a “protected commons” for those who are willing to freely > share continuous access to a pool of plant germplasm for the purposes of > “bazaar”-style, distributed peer production.” > > More Information: Jack Kloppenburg[2], “Seeds, sovereignty, and the Vía > Campesina: Plants, Property, and the Promise of Open Source Biology[3]“, > prepared for the Workshop on Food Sovereignty: Theory, Praxis and Power, > 17-18 November 2008, St. Andrews College, University of Saskatchewan, > draft dated 22 November 2008, 34 pp. [image 5][4][image 7][6][image > 9][8][image 10] > > Links: > [1]: > https://colonos.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/seeds-sovereignty-and-the-via-campesina-plants-property-and-the-promise-of-open-source-biology/ > (link) > [2]: http://www.ukabc.org/seeds&sovereignty.pdf (link) > [3]: > http://www.drs.wisc.edu/kloppenburg/_publications/2008%20Se%20eds%20and%20Sovereignty.pdf > (link) > [4]: > http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/P2pFoundation?a=XP2__nxNkN8:mx2u_6pErQ8:7Q72WNTAKBA > (link) > [5]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/P2pFoundation?d=7Q72WNTAKBA (image) > [6]: > http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/P2pFoundation?a=XP2__nxNkN8:mx2u_6pErQ8:D7DqB2pKExk > (link) > [7]: > http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/P2pFoundation?i=XP2__nxNkN8:mx2u_6pErQ8:D7DqB2pKExk > (image) > [8]: > http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/P2pFoundation?a=XP2__nxNkN8:mx2u_6pErQ8:2mJPEYqXBVI > (link) > [9]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/P2pFoundation?d=2mJPEYqXBVI (image) > [10]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/P2pFoundation/~4/XP2__nxNkN8 > (image) > -- Enviado desde mi dispositivo móvil ________________________________________________ Solar-General es una lista abierta a toda la comunidad, sin ninguna moderación, por lo que se apela a la tolerancia y al respeto mutuo. 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