My Own Gestalt was conducted for FabAcademy, and is intended to be re-used in the framework of MTM for FabAcademy. It logically inherits from Gestalt Node license choice.
That said, it is not very interesting to discuss it. Let's find something more interesting.
OpenGeiger/OpenRadiation project (already mentionned here) is inspired by the feedback from Fukushima. Many people or associations have build their own radiation detectors after the Fukushima accident. In some cases, like Safecast the detector is autonomous, with GPS and SD card included (on an Arduino UNO basis); in some other, like Radiationwatch it is wired to an iPhone with the audio cable (Arduino Nano basis). Our idea, to deploy it in France (while there is no emergency), is to reduce its cost, make an educational version, and improve capabilities compared to previous tools.
We therefore decided to use a bluetooth microcontroller (RFduino), to drive the Geiger-Muller detector (better sensitivity than Radiationwatch), and strip out the GPS and SD card (cheaper than Safecast).
OpenGeiger/OpenRadiation is a complex project, with a long chain of tools: a hardware piece (a bluetooth Geiger-Muller sensor) coming in two flavours: industry packaged and educational kit; a smartphone application; an application back-end on a web server; a database with the data collected.
The need for clear intellectual property and licensing strategy is obvious: the whole projects aims at producing environmental maps trusted by people. Everything should therefore be shared, open-source. But since we want the project to grow, creating business opportunities for possible partners is a plus. Furthermore, there is a legal framework in Europe, enforcing public data publication.
After weeks of discussions with our partner (IRSN) and its IP experts, and the experts from my own institution (UPMC) we came up with a proposal:
data.gouv.fr recommendations for raw data, closed for analysis, results, extrapolations etc.