cmeessen
commented
1 year ago Could the user be allowed to specify the license of content that they add (especially the description, logo and in the future images)?
Open ctwhome opened 1 year ago
cmeessen
commented
1 year ago Could the user be allowed to specify the license of content that they add (especially the description, logo and in the future images)?
jmaassen
commented
1 year ago We also got a question about this from @nuest (via mail). We are not clear about this yet in the Terms of Service.
As far as I am concerned, all metadata (including description) can be shared as CC0. However, we need to check that this does not clash with the licenses of the data that we harvest (i.e., from DataCite, Crossref, ORCID, ROR, Github, etc.) Especially check if an imported README.md could have a different license?
For images it is logical to have a different license from CC0. We may need to add a method to indicate that?
jmaassen
commented
1 year ago License checks:
| source | license | link |
|---|---|---|
| DataCite | CC0-ish | https://datacite.org/terms.html |
| Crossref | No license needed / CC0-ish | https://www.crossref.org/documentation/retrieve-metadata/rest-api/rest-api-metadata-license-information/ |
| ORCID | CC0 for public data | https://info.orcid.org/terms-of-use/ |
| ROR | CC0 | https://ror.org/terms-of-use/ |
| Github metadata | not specified | https://docs.github.com/en/rest?apiVersion=2022-11-28 |
| Gitlab metadata | not specified | https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/rest/ |
Based on a weekly discussion point: What licenses are we using for our metadata? what licenses are used for content that users upload? like text and images.