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diff --git a/guide/src/policies.md b/guide/src/policies.md index 03e5e526..e61984be 100644 --- a/guide/src/policies.md +++ b/guide/src/policies.md @@ -16,13 +16,13 @@ The Fatcat catalog content license is the Creative Commons Zero ("CC-0") license, which is effectively a public domain grant. This applies to the catalog metadata itself (titles, entity relationships, citation metadata, URLs, hashes, identifiers), as well as "meta-meta-data" provided by editors (edit -descriptions, progeny metadata, etc). +descriptions, provenance metadata, etc). The core catalog is designed to contain only factual information: "this work, known by this title and with these third-party identifiers, is believed to be represented by these files and published under such-and-such venue". As a norm, -sourcing metadata (for attribution and progeny) is retained for each edit made -to the catalog. +sourcing metadata (for attribution and provenance) is retained for each edit +made to the catalog. A notable exception to this policy are abstracts, for which no copyright claims or license is made. Abstract content is kept separate from core catalog |