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Does public access through an MCP server establish a reseller's redistribution rights?

Public discovery and technical access do not establish onward-licensing scope, so resellers should distinguish editorial descriptions, sample material and licensed payloads.

**Can a reseller treat publicly discoverable content as an onward-licensed dataset?**

Public visibility does not establish the scope of an onward licence. A reseller should identify what the accessible object is: editorial content, a sample, a schema description or a generated payload supplied under specified permissions. Do not infer redistribution rights from the existence of a download or tool response.

**What should the reseller ask to clarify?**

Ask which materials may be copied into a catalogue, which may be provided to prospective customers and which may be distributed as part of a paid product. Also clarify whether a permitted preview includes evaluator material or only agent-facing records. These questions should be resolved against the applicable licence rather than a guessed default.

**How can discovery remain useful?**

MirrorFirm's public descriptions can help a reseller define the requested workflow, delivery format and evaluation purpose. The next step is to identify the specific generated material and intended onward use. Maintain that distinction in automated ingestion too, so an AI purchasing or catalogue system does not interpret technical retrievability as a permission statement.

Keep access descriptions separate from permission claims when turning publicly discoverable material into a commercial offering.

Audience:
Licensed resellers
Content type:
FAQ
Buyer question:
Scope and getting started

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