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 In order to perform collocation analysis and other textual queries on corpus parts for which KWIC access requires a login, you need to authorize your application with an access token.
 
-In the case of DeReKo, this can be done in three different ways.
+What a token buys is KWIC access, not the query itself. Frequencies are counted over the whole corpus either way, so `frequencyQuery()`, `corpusStats()` and `collocationScoreQuery()` need no authorization even on DeReKo – the very first example above queries it unauthorized. What an unauthorized application does not receive are the KWIC snippets of copyrighted texts, which is why `corpusQuery()` with `metadataOnly = FALSE` and `collocationAnalysis()`, which reads those snippets, do need one there.
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+Even that is a matter of the individual text's license rather than of the corpus: DeReKo's freely licensed parts, the Wikipedia corpora among them, hand out their snippets to anyone. Some instances are liberally licensed throughout and need no authorization at all – the German and English Wikipedia talk pages at <https://korap.ids-mannheim.de/instance/wiki> and <https://korap.ids-mannheim.de/instance/english>, both under a Creative Commons license, return KWIC snippets to a plain `KorAPConnection()`.
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+In the case of DeReKo, authorization can be done in three different ways.
 
 #### 1. The latest and laziest way (available since RKorAPClient 1.0.0)