The establishment of a Certification Process would be a separate discussion.
Absolutely, and please see the other thread started here
I echo your concerns and that’s why we flagged them here. I do not see a way around the necessity of a certification process with the definition in its current form; it is too complex and has too many component parts with subjective requirements.
when you say “an open data license,” are you referring to a license approved by the Open Knowledge Foundation?
Not necessarily. What I was getting at (imprecisely, because the language around all of this has become so muddled) is data licensed in such a way that they may be used similar to how open source software is used, with the criteria.