GPL is not always GNU General Public License...

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Taken in Les Bulles, Luxemburg (See more photos or videos here)

49°42' 27" N, 5°25' 23" E

GPL is not always standing for GNU General Public License... as seen on a flower label. It's a company doing "plant novelty rights" called GPL international (http://www.gpl.dk/). Clearly the opposite direction compared to the freedom defined in the free software license (called GNU General Public License).

By the way if those osteospermum flowers are not F1 hybrid we will be able to keep the seeds and copy (doing multiplication) of the plant... It's the right to nature to reproduce itself. First time I see a company trying to disallow the multiplication...

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	doegox says: What a crazy world, sigh... Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )
	adulau says: Yes, doegox... sometime I feel lost in an ocean of lawyers trying to protect H20. Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )
	p h o t o l i f e says: I'd say it's fairly common to limit multiplication / propagation here in the USA, especially on branded plants. I see yours is branded Sunny®. I'd also guess your Osteospermum could have been vegatatively propagated -- like from cuttings, etc. -- rather than grown from seed. I did an internship at a very large, international horticulture company several years ago. It was fascinating. Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )
	adulau says: Thanks for the info Deanna. But I think there is kind of grey area that seeds/plant company want to keep... to avoid the gardeners to reuse the seeds (but the "protection" is around the "asexual" reproduction). Especially that the "plant" patenting is somehow bizarre with the ability to patent a plant found a cultivated area. It's like being able to patent a kind of Euphorbia naturally bring into your cultivated garden by a bird. We should share more seeds between US and Europe ;-) Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )

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