License clarification for reuse in a research artifact

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by NewArtY - opened

Hello,
The dataset card for vblagoje/cc_news declares the license as unknown, and I would like to clarify the terms before publishing a research artifact alongside a paper.
What I used: a subset of revision 81eb2ce0d2a9dad6ad16b68ef750ec290880fa36, tokenized into windows of 256 tokens. Only aggregate statistics derived from them appear in the paper itself.
Two questions:

  1. Is there a license you consider applicable to this dataset?
  2. The underlying texts come from CommonCrawl News, where copyright remains with the original publishers. What terms do you consider applicable to redistributing tokenized fragments as part of a public research artifact?

Absent a clear answer I will not include the tokenized text in the artifact and will reference the dataset by path and revision instead.
Thank you.

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