A goal is to make these maize varieties available royalty-free to smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa through African seed companies.
Nokia said it planned to turn Symbian, founded in 1998, into a foundation that would make the software available royalty-free to the world's five largest phone makers — Nokia, Samsung, SonyEricsson, LG Electronics and Motorola.
According to Tuesday's announcement by Sun, StarOffice will be available as a free download, with its source code available royalty-free for noncommercial use.
If the purchase is successful, Nokia will form a foundation with handset makers Sony Ericsson, Motorola and Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo to make the software available royalty-free.
Part of the SDK is Skype's SILK audio codec, which it is trying to make a standard by making it available royalty-free.
Indie artist Hicham Chahidi, is one of those composers who make their work available in a royalty free music library.
Interestingly, Stroller Derby points out that "anyone can be the I", as the script is available for performance royalty-free.
Writers were asked to respond to the political situation in their home countries and, beginning Oct. 1 the new plays — from Greece, Syria, Iceland, Scotland and elsewhere — will be available online for royalty-free performances for a week in November.
In reality this means that it should be available on a royalty-free basis and without encumbered documentation.
Symbian – Currently, the Symbian operating system is not classified as open source, although with Nokia's recent announcement, it will soon be available under the royalty-free Eclipse Public License.
Amazon currently has two royalty rates available, which differ in regional availability.
