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This is interesting, why can licenses like GNU GPL3.0 be enforced in US courts but not for new plant varieties? > "Legally, Open Source Seeds (OSS) in Europe w

This is interesting, why can licenses like GNU GPL3.0 be enforced in US courts but not for new plant varieties? > "Legally, Open Source Seeds (OSS) in Europe works slightly differently because of EU seed protection laws. While in the US the OSSI pledge would be hard to enforce if challenged in court, Johannes Kotschi, the founder of OSS Germany, went with an open source licensing model. The license is printed on every OSS seed package in Europe. Whoever opens an OSS package agrees to never patent these seeds or future breeding of them. OSS cooperates with bakeries such as Le Brot in Cologne that offer bread baked with OSS wheat and rye, not least to raise awareness."

wahern 4y ago
> why can licenses like GNU GPL3.0 be enforced in US courts but not for new plant varieties? I don't know enough to be able to address your question directly, but it's worth nothing that at least in the U.S. IP protections for plant breeding and propagation are often highly specialized, both in terms of how patents operate as well as extending to non-patent regimes. See, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_Variety_Protection_Act_of_1970 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_Variety_Protection_Act_o... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_Patent_Act_of_1930 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_Patent_Act_of_1930