Update license en Dspace DB

[gonzalo....@gmail.com]

Hello.
In our Dspace, a license update has been done.
New items have the new license, but older items still have the old license.
I want to update them in the database, but I can't find the field where that license is saved.
I was looking here and I can't find that field.
thanks since now

[Darryl Friesen]

I think the license is stored as a bitstream attached to the item; I don't think it's in the database as a text field.

If I look at our items, I see each has a LICENSE.txt bitstream in the LICENSE bundle.  The web UI seems to let you delete/add files to eth license bundle, but that's probably not practical if you have more than a few items to update.  You could probably write some code to replace the old license files in the assetstore directory, but you'd probably also need to update the database with new checksum values etc.

Or perhaps someone else has a better/easier method?

- Darryl

[Mark H. Wood]

> > <https://wiki.lyrasis.org/download/attachments/68069687/dspace6.png?version=1&modificationDate=1476957009340&api=v2>

> > and I can't find that field.
> > thanks since now
> >

That would be the license granted by the copyright holder to your
institution to distribute the works? You might want to talk to
counsel about altering that without first obtaining the copyright
holder's permission.

If I granted you a license "A" and learned that you had changed it to
"B" without consultation, I would be gravely concerned.

There is a reason that the deposit license works the way it does.
Submitters of new submissions will be accepting the new license;
submitters of old submissions have not.

--
Mark H. Wood
Lead Technology Analyst

University Library
Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
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