Cloud Design and Open Data – reindeer project – Medium

"...The world of software has accomplished great advancements with the support of open source.  And we believe that cloud design as open data will bring about a similar evolution to the world of IT infrastructure. It will be because this kind of free modification and distribution enables the reproduction of value and unleashes the potential ingenuity and productivity of creators on a grand scale. Nevertheless, our actual society does not yet have consistent rules that define open data and regulate how it is used. It is a matter of copyrights, database rights, and other laws that are individually regulated by each nation. Thus, for those of us who are advancing the accumulation of open data, the ideal approach is to receive uniformly clear licenses from creators when we collect cloud designs. Fortunately, the pioneers of the open movement have arranged a variety of methods to make such licenses simpler, and we will look at which of these methods is most appropriate for cloud design below...."