CityShiftBench review artifact license summary

Copyright (c) 2026 Anonymous Authors

This repository contains several kinds of material with different license
obligations. The license terms below are intended for the anonymous NeurIPS
Evaluations and Datasets review artifact and should be preserved in any public
release.

1. Original code and scripts

Original source code, plotting scripts, table-generation scripts, and
experiment wrappers written for CityShiftBench are released under the MIT
License:

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
the original software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to
deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the
rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

2. Benchmark metadata, splits, derived tables, and figures

Original benchmark metadata created by the authors, including split registries,
shot registries, result summaries, generated tables, and generated figures, is
released for research use under CC BY 4.0 unless a file explicitly states a
more restrictive upstream license.

3. OpenStreetMap-derived material

Road, connectivity, and other OSM-derived target fields are derived from
OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data is licensed under the Open Data
Commons Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. Redistribution and use of OSM-derived
database material must comply with ODbL attribution and share-alike
requirements. The MIT license above does not relicense OSM-derived data.

Required attribution: OpenStreetMap contributors.
Upstream license: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/

4. Other upstream sources

Sentinel-derived descriptors, World Bank GDP-per-capita proxy fields, and any
pretrained-model feature controls retain their upstream terms. The data card
and model cards identify the intended source and use boundary for these
components. Users are responsible for complying with upstream terms when
redistributing full assets.