text: **4.4. Impose proper licensing and streamline procurement**
  As with the first report prepared for this project, we will not delve into the details of*how*to license 
  
  data because this topic continues to be followed and debated in all details by LAPSI and other 
  
  projects or researchers. We will simply confirm the importance of establishing a proper license, at 
  
  the national level, for all Public Data, that makes them Open in the right way and makes sure that 
  
  what is opened stays open and that don't demand what isn't possible to enforce (e.g. attribution), 
  
  because, quoting again Eaves,*"no government should waste precious resources by paying someone*
  
  *to scour the Internet to find websites and apps that don't attribute"*. 
  
  We want, however, to spend a few words about another legal/administrative side of the issue, that is 
  
  procurement. Traditional procurement laws are very likely not flexible enough, in most countries, to 
  
  handle the implementation of data-based public services. Here's why. 
  
  We know that if Public Data are Open, everybody, from volunteer activists to hired professionals, 
  
  can very quickly write or maintain simple software applications that help to visualize and use them 
  
  in all possible ways. Paradoxically, this is a problem when an Administration either wants to set up 