Apply an Open License (Legal Openness)¶
In most jurisdictions there are intellectual property rights in data that prevent third-parties from using, reusing and redistributing data without explicit permission. Even in places where the existence of rights is uncertain, it is important to apply a license simply for the sake of clarity. Thus, if you are planning to make your data available you should put a license on it – and if you want your data to be open this is even more important.
What licenses can you use? We recommend that for ‘open’ data you use one of the licenses conformant with the Open Definition and marked as suitable for data. This list (along with instructions for usage) can be found at:
在 Open Data Commons 網站上您也可以找到一個單頁的說明文件，關於資料開放適用的授權模式：
