A data source has a restrictive license. What should you check?
Why B is the answer
Whether the license allows this use
A license sets what you may do with data, so check that it covers your use before building on it.
In detail
- Legal and licensing requirements help you avoid risk.
- A license decides whether you may use the data at all.
- Record the license of every data source.
Use case
An illustrative scenario, not a real incident.
A team finds a useful dataset with a non-commercial license. Using it in a paid product would break the terms, so it chooses another source.
See it in different ways
mindmap
root((Governance))
Input
Guardrails
Output
Masking
Data
Licensing
Permissionsflowchart TD
Q{"Does the license allow this use?"}
Q -->|"Yes"| A0["Use it and record the license"]
Q -->|"No"| A1["Find another source"]Key point: Check the license before you use the data.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Whether it is larger than 1 GB
- Size has no bearing on the license.
- C. Whether it can be stored in the Parquet file format
- File format has nothing to do with legal rights.
- D. Whether it was published recently
- A recent date does not change the license.