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Twelve Leaders Adopt Principles to Accelerate Innovation
Higher education and the IT industry address open software research
ARMONK, N.Y. and KANSAS CITY, MO., December 19, 2005—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 source 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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