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review use of license, termsOfUse, termsOfAccess  #31

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@pdurbin

While working on #30 I'm noticing some strangeness with termsOfUse and termsOfAccess. To keep the other issue as a "trivial" I'm opening this new issue for a deeper look.

There seem to be several cases.

CC0 license, termsOfUse dropped

For these we should probably drop termsOfUse from the JSON because it seems to be dropped by Dataverse anyway.

Related:

data/dataverses/pums/datasets/2000pums5/2000pums5.json
14: "license": "CC0 1.0",
15: "termsOfUse": "CC0 Waiver",

data/dataverses/cms/datasets/cmssampledata/cmssampledata.json
20: "license":"CC0 1.0",
21: "termsOfUse":"CC0 Waiver",

data/dataverses/scholcommlab/datasets/diabeticconnect/diabeticconnect.json
21: "license": "CC0 1.0",
22: "termsOfUse": "CC0 Waiver",

data/dataverses/open-source-at-harvard/datasets/open-source-at-harvard/open-source-at-harvard.json
13: "license": "CC0 1.0",
14: "termsOfUse": "CC0 Waiver",

No license but termsOfUse describes CC0

For these we should probably just add a CC0 license and remove termsOfUse because termsOfUse is describing CC0 anyway. Otherwise it doesn't make much sense.

data/dataverses/ubiquity-press/dataverses/jopd/datasets/flynn-effect-in-estonia/flynn-effect-in-estonia.json
12: "termsOfUse":"All data uploaded to this Dataverse are licensed under the CC0 licence. Please follow this link for further information: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",

data/dataverses/ubiquity-press/dataverses/jopd/datasets/bafacalo/bafacalo.json
13: "termsOfUse":"All data uploaded to this Dataverse are licensed under the CC0 licence. Please follow this link for further information: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",

termsOfAccess but no restricted files

These datasets specify termsOfAccess but because there are no restricted files, you can't easily see that it's set unless you are logged in as an author and edit terms. It probably makes sense to restrict a file or two for each dataset.

data/dataverses/ecastro/datasets/this-is-my-test-dataset/this-is-my-test-dataset.json
18: "license": "CC0 1.0",
19: "termsOfUse": "CC0 Waiver",
20: "termsOfAccess": "You need to request for access.",

data/dataverses/HCPDS/datasets/reproductive-health-laws-around-the-world/reproductive-health-laws-around-the-world.json
18: "license": "CC0 1.0",
19: "termsOfUse": "CC0 Waiver",
20: "termsOfAccess": "You need to request for access. ",

data/dataverses/manchester/datasets/test-dataset/test-dataset.json
20: "license": "CC0 1.0",
21: "termsOfUse": "CC0 Waiver",
22: "termsOfAccess": "Terms: Must be a member of Manchester Dataverse group.",

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