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<license> License Information

Set of conditions under which the content may be used, accessed, and distributed.
Attributes
hreflang
license-type
specific-use

Base Attributes

id
xml:base
xml:lang

Linking Attributes

xlink:actuate
xlink:href
xlink:role
xlink:show
xlink:title
xlink:type

Namespaces

xmlns:xlink
Models and Context
May be contained in
<permissions>
Description
Any one of:
Content Model
<!ELEMENT  license      %license-model;                              >
Expanded Content Model

((ali:license_ref | license-p)+)

Tagged Samples
“open access”
Unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction
...
<book-meta>
 <book-id>...</book-id>
 ...
 <pub-history>...</pub-history>
 <permissions>
  <copyright-statement>Copyright: &copy; 2004 Eichenberger
   et al.</copyright-statement>
  <copyright-year>2004</copyright-year>
  <license license-type="open-access"
    xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">
   <license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the 
    terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits 
    unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, 
    provided the original work is properly cited.</license-p>
  </license>
 </permissions>
 <abstract>...</abstract>
</book-meta>
...
Copyright Clearance Center statement 
...
<book-meta>
 ...
 <permissions>
  <copyright-statement>...</copyright-statement>
  <license license-type="ccc">
   <license-p>0003-6951/2006/88(5)/051101/3/<price>$23.00</price></license-p>
  </license>
 </permissions>
 <abstract>...</abstract>
</book-meta>
...
License changes over time
At first, content is under a proprietary license (initial publication) and then, a year later, under a CC BY license. 
...
<permissions>
 <license>
  <ali:license_ref  
    start_date="2014-02-03"
    xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"> 
   http://www.psychoceramics.org/license_v1.html</ali:license_ref>
  <ali:license_ref 
    start_date="2015-02-03"
    xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">
   http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</ali:license_ref>
 </license>
</permissions>
...
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