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| A '''Green Patent License''' is a parallel to a [[Green Documentation License]] and [[Green Software License]]. It was originally proposed as a way for [[Greens]] to hold patents on technologies they don't like, to suppress them, e.g. [[land mine]]s, [[nuclear]] technology, or [[genetically modified food]]. | | A '''Green Patent License''' is a parallel to a [[Green Documentation License]] and [[Green Software License]]. This might be an aspect of the [[Consumerium License]] if there is a way to require [[improvement]]s that might be subject to [[patent]] into a [[friendly license]] so they can't be used to suppress the [[Consumerium Services]]. |
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| This might be an aspect of the [[Consumerium License]] if there is a way to obligate [[required reintegration]] of [[improvement]]s that might be subject to [[patent]] into a [[friendly license]] with perhaps some agreements so they can't be used to suppress the [[Consumerium Services]]: | |
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| To do so the Green [[Governance Organization]] ([[Green Parties]] or [[nonprofit]] [[Consortium]] holding the patents for them) would agree to make them, and possibly other patents, available for use for all [[Green purposes]] of the [[healthy signal infrastructure]], of which at least the [[healthy buying infrastructure]] must be [[royalty-free]] or [[self-funding]], i.e. Consumerium does not pay for access to things it itself created or channeled from a [[Consumerium Contributor]], and royalties paid equal royalties received. Doing this might also give Consumerium access to other patents, which would be highly desirable as it may prevent a [[bad copy problem]].
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| Alternatively all patentable aspects of extensions could be revealed to the [[public domain]] (improvements on which would then be subject to independent patent - [[self-interested fork]]) or [[open patent]]s could be used. However the latter is not [[self-funding]] and seems not to really be going anywhere. | | Alternatively all patentable aspects of extensions could be revealed to the [[public domain]] (improvements on which would then be subject to independent patent - [[self-interested fork]]) or [[open patent]]s could be used. However the latter is not [[self-funding]] and seems not to really be going anywhere. |
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| Or, like [[free software]], we could just require in the [[Consumerium License]] that no one patent anything improved on that they got from Consumerium, unless it is an [[open patent]] or the Green license. This would be hard to enforce and would do nothing to assist [[self-funding]]. It would also possibly be unenforceable, and would not provide any incentive for extensions, whereas participating in a larger scheme Greens run may do both.
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| There are few ideal solutions in the patent world.
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