Purchase of the commercial single user licence Environmental Footprint (EF) database

Question

I am a manager of a consultancy company and I would like to purchase the PEF database for my collaborators for LCA studies. I apologize in advance for the question, but it is important for me to understand the OPENLCA system.

My collaborators have downloaded the OPEN LCA software onto their PC.

Can I proceed with the purchase of the commercial single user licence Environmental Footprint (EF) database with my account and then send the database to my collaborators who will install it on open LCA? Will this work in their software?

Thank you for your kind feedback

Answer 1

Hi, the EF database must not be sold by us, but we had quite some effort to prepare it (due to, I would say, imperfections in the data as they are on the various EF nodes), and therefore we have developed a tool which we sell which contains the free EF database, the Database Analyse Launcher, DAL. This tool is available with a single user license, meaning you are not allowed to distribute it to "all your friends in a project" (e.g.). We are however happy to discuss a multi user license for it, please contact us then.

All the best,

Andreas

Comments

Thank you for your kind reply Andreas.
A few questions before purchasing DAL.

By downloading the DAL from openNEXUS and importing it into openLCA do we already have all the data from the PEF database available? Or do we have to retrieve the data from another site?

Will the release of PEF updates be integrated directly into DAL? The updates will be paid or will they be available for free?

Sincerely
Riccardo

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I saw the video on YouTube and it clarified my ideas. The moment I download the DAF database, this is a zip file that I cannot edit only view it. When I transform it into a zolca file, can I start modeling my products? correct?

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indeed, then it becomes a normal openLCA database