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[Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org>]

Lawrence F. London, Jr. writes:
 > John Schinnerer wrote:
 > 
 > >>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.
 > >
 > >  
 > >
 > Cannot advertise and implement for-pay services while being hosted on 
 > ibiblio
 > But can solicit and receive grants and donations for services
 > 
 > Also, small/Mom&Pop seed operations (which predominate in the arena of 
 > esoteric, rare, hard-to-find, organic, heirloom, non-gmo
 > seed sources) will not be able to afford to pay to be listed as 
 > seed/plant/nursery stock sources within the PIW database. The most they
 > can be expected to do is proide the data we will need from them as 
 > suppliers and keep that info up-to-date.

Right now there is nothing stopping a small seed company/nursery from
posting a comment that says they can buy this plant at their company.
With a custom xml-rpc client for the company they could do automatic
updates as their inventory changed, etc.

 > >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. 
 > >  
 > >
 > Still would not be able to do that while hosted on ibiblio - but can 
 > receive donations.
 > Cannot _advertise for-pay services for anything hosted on ibiblio_. This 
 > is why they will not host any .com domains, only .info, .org and .net.

Speaking of which what about moving towards a paypal donation sort of
thing to keep the project moving post Threshold?  Could we keep it
going through PCI?

-- 
Chad Knepp
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