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Repositories ask you to assign a license to your data that specifies the conditions under which it can be reused.<\/h3>\r\nCreative Commons licenses are typical, but there are also other types of licenses and data sharing agreements. For example, the\u00a0Open Data Commons<\/a>\u00a0maintains a set of resources and tools and licenses. The following section will introduce Creative Common licenses as an example. They are an option available when you deposit data in\u00a0Borealis<\/a>\u00a0or in the\u00a0Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR)<\/a>, which are national data repository platforms in Canada (repositories will be discussed further later in the module).\r\n

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Repositories ask you to assign a license to your data that specifies the conditions under which it can be reused.<\/h3>\n

Creative Commons licenses are typical, but there are also other types of licenses and data sharing agreements. For example, the\u00a0Open Data Commons<\/a>\u00a0maintains a set of resources and tools and licenses. The following section will introduce Creative Common licenses as an example. They are an option available when you deposit data in\u00a0Borealis<\/a>\u00a0or in the\u00a0Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR)<\/a>, which are national data repository platforms in Canada (repositories will be discussed further later in the module).<\/p>\n

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