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.

• DTN Taxon name lists and scientific term lists are managed by DWB applications as part of research projects like IBF, GBOL and LIAS. This scientific content is used in the DiversityMobile context with read-only access (see TNT services). The Intellectual property rights lay with the single list curators.

• DTN Taxon name lists and scientific term lists are 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.