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docs(data): note that image and logo URLs keep their Commons licenses
image_url and logo_url now point only at Wikimedia Commons files. State that those files are not covered by the dataset's CC BY-SA 4.0 grant and how to credit them. Refs #296
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same license. Each record also lists the sources it was compiled from in its
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`source_urls` field.
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## Images
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`image_url` and `logo_url` only link to files on Wikimedia Commons. Those files
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are not part of the dataset and this license does not cover them: each keeps
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the license shown on its Commons file page. Records with a photo also store its
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`image_license` and `image_attribution`; credit the author that way, or link
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to the file page, wherever you display one.
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This notice restates the license declared in the top-level `README.md`. The
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code in this repository — the validator, the site and the workflows — is
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licensed separately under MIT; see [`../LICENSE`](../LICENSE).

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