Dataset and Software License Types You Need to Consider
You can’t use datasets and software as much as you want. Certain restrictions apply!
One of the biggest reasons for emerging data science, machine learning and deep learning is freely available software and datasets. It will be hard to find any software or datasets for most of us if they are not freely available to download and use!
The term “free” in free software and free datasets does not mean something that “you can use as much as you want”. Certain limitations and restrictions apply!
Most of us do not consider the license type of software or datasets.
See the following examples:
In the above examples, you can see that popular software like TensorFlow, popular datasets like Breast Cancer Dataset and even the contents of the software documentation pages are protected by some type of license.
Today, in this article, I will explain dataset and software license types along with “open source” and “public domain” concepts. MIT, Apache, BSD, GPL, CC, ODC & CDLA licenses are explained.
