Difference between revisions of "GX"

From Creative Commons
Jump to: navigation, search
(Created page with 'GX is an abbreviation for '''GreenXchange''', a project that was originally proposed a collaboration between Nike and Creative Commons to share widely technologies that promote s…')
(No difference)

Revision as of 21:01, 4 February 2010

GX is an abbreviation for GreenXchange, a project that was originally proposed a collaboration between Nike and Creative Commons to share widely technologies that promote sustainability. The GX project presented at Davos in January 2010.

GX makes use a number of strategies for making technologies available for research and commercial applications:

  • a research non-assertion: scientists and researchers working in universities and other non-profit research institutions can take advantage of the Research Non-Assertion to carry out academic non-commercial research
  • a standard model patent license: a simple, streamlined, non-exclusive patent license that can be used to make public offers to license patents