pcplantdb

["John Schinnerer" <john@eco-living.net>]

Aloha,

I don't understand what this has to do with the pcplantdp project as it
now is emerging.  I assume Rich is talking about licensing PFAF for
commercial use.  Our project is open source.  Further clarification
appreciated...

cheers,
John S.

> Thought I'd bring this up again to see what comes of discussion about it:
>
> <quoted from an email to SG of HG fame (& fortune):>
>
> "Rich has made it clear that PFAF may want to license commercial
> use of the database someday. They should do this and have
> every right to do so, however, the issue of compensation/recognition for
> all the folks who contributed information to the database over the
> long haul (data, graphics, design ideas, publicity, anything else) has
> largely been ignored. This was an issue for me from the start. Why
> should anyone contribute a lot of time in research and data preparation
> for their project, which they have little control over
> and no compensation other than use of the database (what version of it
> will they be able to use as opposed to what commercial licensees
> will?) when they could contribute to a project completely owned by the
> public, administered by public volunteers, not a database but using
> other perfectly good software and hosted for free on ibiblio."
>
> Anyone care to address this issue?
>
> LL
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