Greater Good Portfolio

Before you can read any of the designs, ideas, and inventions in the Greater Good Portfolio, you must read and agree to the terms of use that follow. (The links will not work until you have done so.) You do not need to agree to those terms just to read the catalogue on this page.

Sight

• Inverse-Blur Text: a technique using CSS styling to "inverse blur" text which cancels out the blur of the reader's eye, making text more readable to people with blurry eye-sight.

Mobile Phones

• Tags: making bluetooth "trackers" ie finders even more useful.
• Meaningful phone alerts for calls and messaging apps, so that the user can tell who is calling from the alert tone.

Terms of Use => The Greater Good Licence v 1.1

Definitions

• The Greater Good Portfolio is this collection of ideas and inventions (designs) in this part of our web site.
• A Design is the material on this web site pertaining to a particular design or invention, along with its know-how.
• The Intention of the Greater Good Portfolio is to enable inventions and other ideas which cause good to individuals mankind or animals, including the promotion of peace, well-being, prosperity, and the protection of the environment, to be made available by their inventors to commercial and other implementors, so that those inventions and designs and the good envisaged may be realised. The inventors of those designs ask little more than due recognition for their efforts, and take their reward from the knowledge that they have, in some measure, increased the greater good of society.
• A Prohibited Purpose is any purpose where (i) the main use would cause harm or distress to any human being or animal, or (ii) would cause net damage to the environment or ecology of this planet or (iii) is unlawful in the appropriate jurisdiction.
• A Permitted Purpose is any purpose, including commercial, which is in line with the Intention. It excludes a Prohibited Purpose or conducting any patent infringement litigation EXCEPT patent litigation defence.
• A Design is Used when You embody it or use it or any part of that Design for any purpose beyond that of simply reading or assessing that Design in a desk-top evaluation.
• A Submitter is, in respect of any particular design, the person or organisation that submitted it to this web site.
• You is you, your organisation, anyone on whose behalf you are acting, or anyone to whom you pass Design material from this web site on to.
• Us or We are any individual or organisation associated with this web site, and (in respect of a particular Design) the Submitter(s) of that Design.

Agreement

In Consideration of Your agrement to abide by the terms of this licence, the Submitter(s) of each Design grants You, subject to these terms, a royalty-free world-wide non-exclusive licence to read or Use such IPR as the Submitter(s) may have in the Design.

1. the licence is automatically revoked whilst You are in breach of any of its terms;
2. You will not patent or otherwise encumber any derivative work of the Design;
3. You are not obliged to disclose any improvements you may make to the Design, so whilst You may not prevent others making the same improvement, you don't have to help them to do so;
4. You will refrain from suing, or assisting others to sue, Us for breach of any IPR you or others may have in that Design;
5. this licence does not extend nor purport to extend to any element of the Design which is the IPR of a third party, whether acknowledged in the Design or not;
6. You will only pass a Design on to a third party where that third party agrees to be bound by this Licence, including this term;
7. You acknowledge that neither We, nor indeed any person or corporation represents or warrants that any Design is (i) good for any particular purpose; (ii) free from IPR restrictions; (iii) safe, efficient, or effective; (iv) compliant with the rules, regulations, or laws of any particular jurisdiction;
8. Should You choose to Use the Design or any part of it, You will:
   • only use the Design for a Permitted Purpose;
   • conduct and rely on Your own due diligence regarding Your right to use the IPR in the design;
   • perform all safety testing and assessments Yourself;
   • check that the Design and its use is lawful where-ever You deploy it.
   • refrain from suing, or assisting others to sue, the Publishers and any Submitter of any Design in the Greater Good Portfolio for breach of any IPR You or others may have in any Design;
   • indemnify and hold Us harmless against any cost arising from Your Use of the Design;
   • acknowledge on all documentation (including electronic) (i) the Submitter of the Design, (ii) this Greater Good Portfolio, and (iii) this licence;
   • where possible describe on this web site any successful realisation of the Design;
   • by way of thanks give due consideration (but not in a way which is legally binding) to giving the Submitter of the Design one instance of your usage of it;
   • You may sell and make profits from implementations of the Design or parts of the Design, and You may make revenue in other ways from the Design, such as assistance in using implementations of the Design.
9. This agreement is governed under the laws of England and is subject to the jurisdiction of the English courts.

Submitters

If You submit material to the Greater Good Portfolio, You also agree that You:

1. are not knowingly breaching the IPR of a third party;
2. grant the 'Greater Good Licence' to any and all third parties who agree to abide by its terms;
3. will not submit any Design for a Prohibited Purpose.

Readers

By downloading or otherwise reading any Design from the Greater Good Portfolio, you agree that You do so under the terms of the Greater Good Licence, and to which You agree to be bound.

All

To gain access to the Greater Good Portfolio, please tick the check box, enter "I agree" in the text box, and press the "Agree" button below. By doing any of these, you indicate your agreement to being bound by the terms of the Greater Good Licence for any Design you download or read. When you have done so, the links will be activated. We do not collect your identity when you agree (although the hosting platform may collect IP addresses).

If you do not agree to these terms, then you are not permitted access to these Designs beyond the summaries on this page.

You also signal your agreement to these terms by the act of gaining access to the Designs by any other mechanisms, including circumventing the agreement acknowledgment above.

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