RIGHTS.md

Lexgraph data rights matrix

Lexgraph separates rights in an individual legal text from rights in a source database. German statutes and official decisions are official works under § 5 UrhG; this does not by itself remove a database producer's rights under §§ 87a–87b UrhG.

The Hugging Face dataset therefore uses license: other. No blanket SNTIQ licence is asserted over material supplied by public authorities or third parties.

Public file family	Source / regime	Reuse boundary
federal_catalog, federal_acts, federal_norms	BMJ/BfJ GII; § 5 UrhG and GII's express reuse notice	federal_catalog is the official gii-toc.xml discovery metadata; the other files are official German legal text. Cite GII and do not imply endorsement.
official_federal_state_observations, official_federal_state_transitions, official_federal_state_objects	Complete official GII states captured by Lexgraph; § 5 UrhG; Lexgraph content addressing and own diff	Full statutory text remains an official work. Observation and transition metadata are Lexgraph-generated evidence records. observed_at proves a retrieval, not commencement; effective_at stays empty in the state-diff file. The state SHA identifies canonical uncompressed JSON. No Buzer data is used.
official_transition_reviews	Complete GII state pairs + integrity-checked final BGBl text + DIP commencement data	Lexgraph-generated acceptance records. A legal date is asserted only after the final BGBl amending command covers every changed norm and one exact DIP commencement clause resolves the amending article. Hashes and official links preserve provenance; Buzer is not evidence.
verified_reconstructions and its derived federal_states/objects extras	Complete official GII anchor + integrity-checked final BGBl commands + exact DIP commencement boundaries; Lexgraph reverse/forward replay	The statutory wording remains an official work, while the replay, review record, interval assertion and content addressing are Lexgraph-generated. A derived_verified body is complete and replay-verified but is not a source-supplied historical snapshot (source_exact: false). Derived objects are kept outside the official GII manifest and are published only with their official anchor, deterministic-gzip hash and explicit origin.
retrospective_history, retrospective_legal_intervals, retrospective_amendment_events, retrospective_observations, retrospective_gaps	GII complete states + DIP procedure/commencement metadata + integrity-checked final BGBl articles	Lexgraph-generated bitemporal evidence/index records. Legal-validity and Lexgraph-knowledge intervals are separate. Event-only rows do not claim a reconstructed consolidated body; unresolved article/sub-article dates remain null. The records are independently reproduced from official sources and contain no Buzer snapshot or synopsis.
bundestag_procedures, patches	DIP API and official Drucksachen	Reuse under the DIP terms; required attribution: Deutscher Bundestag/Bundesrat – DIP. Lexgraph-derived extraction, ranking and annotations are identified as transformations.
verified_federal_events	Adjacent official GII states, final BGBl/DIP reviews, and DIP draft text independently checked against current GII	Lexgraph-generated evidence records. An unreviewed exact row proves two retrieved official states, not an inferred effective date. A reviewed exact row names its final BGBl/DIP gate. current_text_correspondence proves only a sufficiently distinctive present-day match, sets historical_attribution: false, and asserts neither promulgation nor a patch-level effective date. Buzer is not an input to this public file.
bgbl_events and captured BGBl final-command evidence	recht.bund.de / BGBl	Official publication metadata and links; the promulgated text is an official work. Locally captured PDFs are integrity-checked and used to derive article-level review evidence; the HF review rows publish hashes, official links and matched state diffs rather than a private-source synopsis.
bayern_acts, bayern_norms, bayern_recht_versions	BAYERN.RECHT	Official legal text may be reused; BAYERN.RECHT reserves database rights in its usage terms, so Lexgraph exports only its curated corpus and provenance, not a mirror of the complete service.
bayern_landtag_bills, gvbl_events	Bavarian Landtag and official GVBl/BayMBl records	Curated official procedure/publication facts and origin links; source-page layout and editorial material are not mirrored.
bayern_word_diffs	Official BAYERN.RECHT states retrieved from current pages, daily snapshots and sparse Internet Archive captures; own conservative matching/diff	Statutory old/new text plus Lexgraph's derived transition record. Internet Archive is a retrieval channel, not a grant of rights; only official legal text and provenance are exported, and incomplete archive coverage is explicit.
eu_instruments, eu_transpositions, eu_index	EUR-Lex / CELLAR	EUR-Lex metadata is CC0; legal documents are reusable and editorial/consolidated material is CC BY 4.0 under the EUR-Lex legal notice.
decisions	Reviewed official decisions and RII	Decisions and official headnotes are § 5 works; RII also states that offered formats are freely reusable. Automated intake is disabled by default pending migration to the documented NeuRIS bulk API.
neuris_archive, neuris_objects	Official NeuRIS legislation changelog and advertised ZIP/XML/HTML artifacts (BMJ/DigitalService Testphase)	Captured legislation remains official material; Lexgraph's append-only event/capture ledger, hashes and gap labels are its own evidence metadata. The export preserves metadata-only, tombstone and failed-capture rows but ships bytes only for capture_status: captured objects whose size, SHA-256, media shape and official source URL verify. Temporary or failed partial downloads are never redistributed. NeuRIS ELI date components are retained as source identifiers and are not re-labelled as legal-effective dates.
watched_procedures, procedure_watch_state, procedure_watch_history, amendment_fates, git (chronology compatibility alias), graph	Derived from the listed official inputs; original Lexgraph analysis	Source facts retain their source regime. Lexgraph's original selection, annotations, forecasts and graph modelling use the repository's SNTIQ licensing set. Forecasts are not source facts.

For commercial reuse of DIP-derived rows, the DIP terms additionally require a linked notice that the source data is available free of charge at dip.bundestag.de. Lexgraph itself links every procedure back to DIP and does not redistribute altered parliamentary PDFs.

Quarantined sources

The following snapshot families may exist in a private research cache but are excluded from public web data and Hugging Face exports by default:

• buzer, buzer_synopse: the retained research cache is excluded because Lexgraph does not redistribute or systematically extract Buzer's private version/synopsis database. Permission would matter only for reusing that database itself. It is not needed for independently producing equivalent or better facts and diffs from official sources with Lexgraph's own workflow. A curated per-act external link is not a republication: public act records may expose it as cross_checks[], explicitly non-authoritative.
• laender_bills, laender_monitor: Parlamentsspiegel is used only as an internal discovery aid until facts are re-verified at the originating Landtag or republication permission is granted.

LEXGRAPH_INCLUDE_QUARANTINED=1 is a private research switch. The Hugging Face exporter refuses to run when that switch influenced the web build.

Software and original material

The repository's software and SNTIQ-authored annotations remain governed by LICENSING.md. Those licences do not relicense official works, third-party databases, trademarks, logos or source-site editorial content.