The unexpected outcome of the Open Source Seed Initiatives licensing debate

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jun 3, 2014 11:03 PM EDT
Opensource.com; By Jack Kloppenburg
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The Open Source Seed Initiative (OSSI) was established in May 2012, by a group of public plant breeders, small seed company plant breeders, farmer-breeders, and advocates for seed sovereignty. OSSI was formed in order to enhance vigorous innovation in plant breeding by the creation of a licensing framework for germplasm exchange that would preserve the right to unencumbered use of shared seeds and their progeny in subsequent use. We had hoped that we could develop a legally defensible license for germplasm in the way that the free and open source software movement developed its licenses.

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