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TheBritishLibrary/blbooks

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The declared licence (cc0-1.0) is classified as permissive.

Declared licence: cc0-1.0, from the tagEvidence: README.md at b085f99
Licence files: No licence file at the top level of the repositoryEvidence: file list at b085f99
Declared sources: None listed in the card metadata
Access gated on Hugging Face: No

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Citation text from the card

```bibtext
@misc{bBritishLibraryBooks2021,
  author = {British Library Labs},
  title = {Digitised Books. c. 1510 - c. 1900. JSONL (OCR derived text + metadata)},
  year = {2021},
  publisher = {British Library},
  howpublished={https://doi.org/10.23636/r7w6-zy15}

```

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dataset_licence({ "id": "TheBritishLibrary/blbooks" })
signal: "permissive"
stated_licence: "cc0-1.0"
sources: 0