; (11) the term open license means a legal guarantee applied to a public data asset that the data asset is made available— (A) at no cost to the public; and (B) with no restrictions on copying, publishing, distributing, transmitting, citing, or adapting; and (12) the term public data asset means a data asset maintained by the Federal Government that— (A) may be released to the public; (B) has been released to the public in an open format and is discoverable through a search of Data.gov or any successor to Data.gov; or (C) is part of the worldwide public domain or, if necessary, published with an open license. 3562. Requirements for Government data (a) Machine-Readable data required Open Government data assets made available by an agency shall be published as machine-readable data. (b) Open by default When not otherwise prohibited by law, and to the extent practicable, public data assets and nonpublic data assets maintained by the Federal Government shall— (1) be available in an open format