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Databases can contain a wide variety of types of content (images,
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and so the ODbL only governs the rights over the Database, and not the
contents of the Database individually. Licensors should use the ODbL
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Sometimes the contents of a database, or the database itself, can be
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over information in the contents), and so you are advised that you may
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