# Dataset release policy

AutoMedBench reports benchmark results but does not redistribute the upstream
dataset content referenced by the benchmark website. A private repository does
not override source licenses or data-use agreements.

`manifests/data_policy.csv` freezes one policy record for each of the 48 tasks:

- `redistributable`: a source appears to grant redistribution under the listed
  license; attribution and all license conditions still apply;
- `download_required`: users must obtain the data from the upstream source;
- `restricted`: access is gated or credentialed or redistribution is
  prohibited;
- `unknown`: no sufficient redistribution grant has been verified.

The release rule is conservative: no dataset bytes are embedded in any of the
48 task packages, the eight shared runtime images, or the 96 thin task-tier
images. Every uploaded artifact is code-only. Runtime data is mounted from a
local directory prepared independently by the authorized user. The shared
runtime inventory is frozen in `manifests/runtime_images.csv`; task-tier image
and archive identities are frozen in `manifests/cell_images.csv` and
`manifests/cell_archives.csv`.

`manifests/dataset_resolution.csv` resolves every task to one auditable state:
23 task rows are locally staged and layout-hashed, 16 are acquisition-ready
from a frozen source/recipe, and nine are externally blocked by an approval,
DUA, or mixed-source permission requirement. These local readiness records do
not grant redistribution rights and no staged dataset directory is uploaded.

Before any task can be called release-ready:

1. the upstream source and immutable revision must be frozen;
2. its license or access agreement must be retained with the release audit;
3. selected case IDs and deterministic staging checksums must be recorded;
4. restricted users must acquire the data independently;
5. the staged layout must pass the exact-secret and personal-path scan.

Known immediate gates include the declared LiTS versus pinned MSD liver
provenance distinction; FeTA, PANTHER, fastMRI, BraTS, Kvasir-VQA,
OmniMedVQA, MIMIC-CXR, and VinDr-CXR access restrictions; and unclear
CheXpert Plus and ISIC subset licenses. PathCap is staged for authorized local
use with distinct 100/500 ID lists but remains prohibited from redistribution.
The 15 website tasks absent from locked source branches now have explicitly
identified `release_owned_v1` harnesses rather than being reported as missing.