Re: [Digir-dev] Re: License question

[Robert A. (B. M. <ra...@cs...>]

Jim Croft writes:
 > ...
 > jim (who sees red at the concepts of profit making and biodiversity in the 
 > same sentence)
 > 
 > Stealing an allusion from Guillaumes TDWG presentation - I want free 
 > software, free data, freedom of speech, free beer... and I want it now...

I think that the discussion has well-illustrated the difference
between BSD and GPL. Personally, I concur with you; our own stuff
is GPL, not BSD. 

However, BSD enables, but does not protect, commercial implementations
and I think this could potentially be of greater utility to some GBIF
members. In the end, it may not matter much whether
GPL or BSD is applied, because there may be inconsequential commercial
interest in the current digIR code base. But who actually owns the IPR
now could be pretty important, as your own experience seems to
suggest.