DiversityMobile IPR and Licenses

Intellectual property rights and licenses for software code and scientific content

• The smartphone app DiversityMobile is implemented by Tobias Schneider and Georg Rollinger, University of Bayreuth, Chair for Applied Computer Science IV under supervision by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Jablonski.

• DWB applications as part of the DiversityMobile environment are implemented by Dr. Markus Weiss and Wolfgang Reichert, SNSB IT Center.

• DiversityMobile web services are established by Dieter Neubacher and Wolfgang Reichert, SNSB IT Center.

• The DWB database models are published under Creative Common License CC-ND (see http://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/Information_models).

• DWB software, including software created as part of the IBF project, is generally distributed under GPLv2 license.

• The scientific content (e.g., taxon references lists) gained with DWB applications during the IBF and other projects (e.g., GBOL) is provided under Creative Common License CC-ND as far as TNT services are concerned.

• The scientific content gained with DiversityMobile during the IBF project and published in GBIF is provided under Creative Common License. Users, however, have to accept the GBIF Data Use Agreement.

• The TK25 Maps Bavaria for DiversityMobile are accessible under the rights and licenses of the Bayerische Vermessungsverwaltung.

• The standard lists for biotope types and plant associations of Bavaria are accessible under the rights and licenses of the Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt.