# Licensing

VisDocAgentBench combines benchmark-authored annotations with page images derived from independently licensed source documents. These components do not share one blanket license.

## Benchmark-Authored Material

The following files are licensed under the [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/):

- `benchmark/queries.jsonl`
- `benchmark/evaluator_annotations.jsonl`
- `benchmark/topics.json`
- `corpus/documents.jsonl`
- `corpus/pages.jsonl`
- `dataset_info.json`

Copyright 2026 the VisDocAgentBench authors.

## Source-Document Page Images

Every page image under `corpus/pages/` remains governed by the license recorded in the corresponding row of `corpus/documents.jsonl`. The manifest also supplies the source title, authors, exact arXiv version, and source URL needed for attribution.

The distributed images come from:

- 55 documents licensed under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); and
- 4 documents licensed under [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).

The noncommercial and share-alike conditions of CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 continue to apply to those four sources. Users must inspect `license_url` in `corpus/documents.jsonl` before reusing an image.

## Metadata-Only Sources

Page images are not redistributed for:

- 35 documents under the [arXiv nonexclusive distribution license](https://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/); and
- 6 documents under [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Their benchmark metadata and annotations remain available. The code repository provides a local reconstruction utility that downloads the exact source version from arXiv for evaluation. Local use and any subsequent redistribution remain subject to the source license.