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

Aloha,

No time to keep up with the technical aspects of all this...however...

> There a few pricky questions.
...
> Buisness: Are listing free? Potentially could be some income in it but 
> might be problems with non commercial licence.

Listings definitley not free. I would not support that.
Such listings would be de facto marketing/advertising for the involved 
business and would need to be paid for by them.

I don't see why the non-commercial license would be an issue if the the 
supplier references were handled as a separate, non-free service. 
Something like you suggest:

> One way round technical prob is with open source code. We could 
> potentially provide modules which would provide a nice xml output for 
> the data. A supplier could link this into their database.

...right, for a fee they could be a "sponsor link" such that all users 
were aware that the listed supplier(s) were paying to support PIW in 
return for a tailored service pointing to them as suppliers.

Another option would be to collect a percentage on referrals...lots of 
options.  Could also avoid all these tangles by simply not touching this 
one...

John S.



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