"I'm wondering how/who will make the determination of appropriate license cost? PDS only has two members on the management committee? Corrections welcomed. Anyone have thoughts on what the process might be, now that we KNOW licensing CAN continue?"

Herein lies the problem. As B-Lunist succinctly stated, "our money collection machine is currently broken". There currently isn't a process in place which both sides agree on - which is why they used the word "can" instead of "will". If you don't think IR chose their words carefully, then you're being very naive.