{"id":36737,"key":"Humanitarian_license","title":"Humanitarian license","latest":{"id":1205799,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T18:58:06Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"== Challenge ==\n\nThe developing world needs every tool it can get to alleviate [[poverty]] in ways that do not increase [[carbon emissions]] or further damage fragile environments. Western technologies often require considerable [[localization]] both technically and in terms of business models, and this does not usually form part of the companies business plan.\n\n== Solution ==\n\n[[Natural Innovation]], is developing a standardized '''Humanitarian License''' to reduce the overhead of a for-profit Western company or University licensing a technology to a social venture. It is intended to fill the same place for patents and Intellectual Property as the [[Creative Commons]] license fills for copyright.\n\n== External links ==\n\n[http://web.archive.org/web/20200807215035/http://www.naturalinnovation.org/index.php/partners/projects/63-humanitarianlicense here]\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n}}\n\n[[Category:Licenses]]\n[[Category:Law]]\n[[Category:Policies]]"}