“Open data and content can be freely used, modified, and shared by anyone for any purpose” http://opendefinition.org/
"The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research." https://opensource.org/osd
Interesting. So is a nominally open-source program like RStudio not actually open-source because enterprise uses need a license?
It looks like RStudio is AGPL v3, which is a free and open source license. Enterprise users only need a different license if they don't want to abide by the AGPL's strong copyleft requirements.
Re:Open Source Datasets
by zitterbewegung on Friday June 16, 2017 @11:33AM
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I agree that people who use a dataset for profit should be required for a for profit use. I didn't mean to imply that academics should give their data away for free. Maybe there needs to be a way for academics to sell their data or any other tangible benefit.
Just because something is open source doesn't mean it can't have an academia-only restriction. Data sets should cost money in for-profit uses, open or not.