Code for removing option to select CC0 from dropdown in DSpace 7.6

[Carolyn Sullivan]

Hello,

I know the Creative Commons license selection options come from the legacy CC API, so it's not exactly easy to modify that in the front-end of DSpace, but I was wondering if anyone had found a way of eliminating the CC0 option from the dropdown options?  Students often don't understand the implications of CC0 licenses. I've seen some problems across institutions where students trying to publish a chapter of their thesis as an article have gotten flagged for self plagiarism because they published their thesis as public domain, or where Amazon has been reselling physical copies of their work.

Thanks,

Carolyn.

[DSpace Technical Support]

Hi Carolyn,

I believe this can be easily modified via the "cc.license.classfilter" configuration in your local.cfg or dspace.cfg.  See this setting:

https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/dspace-7_x/dspace/config/dspace.cfg#L997-L1005

A bit more information is at https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/Configuration+Reference#ConfigurationReference-ConfiguringCreativeCommonsLicense

It's probably just a matter of added "zero" (which is the title of the CC0 license) to that list alongside with the existing defaults.

Tim