Twelve Leaders Adopt Principles to Accelerate Innovation

Twelve Leaders Adopt Principles to Accelerate Innovation

Leaders from four information technology companies, seven American universities and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation announced today that they have adopted first-of-a-kind guiding principles to accelerate collaborative research for open source software.

Specifically, the companies and universities agreed:

– That intellectual property arising from selected research
collaborations will be made available free of charge for commercial and
academic use.
– To an established set of guidelines that address the rights of the
participants and the public.

These twelve enterprises believe the principles will accelerate innovation and contribute to open software research across a breadth of initiatives, thus enabling the development of related industry standards and greater interoperability, while managing intellectual property in a more balanced manner.

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