There is clearly a movement to openly share data from numerous
data sources: governments, organizations, Web sites,
individuals, and devices. Users are more easily able to publish
data through collaborative sites, or find and download data that
they can use to remix, reapply, reuse, and extend. The
trajectory of open data sharing and utilization parallels the
development of open-source, where the potential magnified impact
of open sharing and collaboration yields far great outcomes.
However, unlike the open source world, the legal and cultural
frameworks in which to share data have not yet emerged. In code,
there are a gamut of well known and widely used licenses: GPL,
BSD, MIT, Apache, and more. While each has unique
characteristics, their overall meaning and implications are
easily understood by developers and comply with business
operations that wish to use open-source software. The licenses
are each unique, and can sometimes be confusing, yet there is a
small vocabulary of regular licenses that developers