# Recommended Data License

## Summary

E.g. the requirement that publishers should use Creative Commons or Open Database License.

## Description

A recommended license can help to ensure that adopters give due consideration to licensing. Clearly and openly licensed data encourages data use by the wider community. 

## Prioritisation Factors

- If adopters are unlikely to consider licensing as part of their adoption process
- If adopters are likely to have concerns over how their data can be used

## Deprioritisation Factors

- If the data that the standard relates to is already governed by a license restriction