claude opus 5.5
claude opus 5.5
Squash history: withdraw the Sejm's interpellations from parliamentary until v0.2.7
81fafcb | # NOTICE: official Polish sources | |
| This file covers five sources built from Polish official publications: | |
| `parliamentary`, `sejm_api_2011_2022`, `sejm_api`, `sejm_committee_transcripts` | |
| and `dziennik_ustaw`. Counts, | |
| statistics and processing details are in each source's datasheet | |
| (`data/<source>/<source>.md`), not here. Other sources have their own notices in | |
| `data/<source>/`. The dataset-level licence, disclaimer and takedown statements are in | |
| the [README](README.md#license--attribution); this file does not change them. | |
| ## Legal status (our assessment) | |
| We consider these texts excluded from copyright under Art. 4 of the Polish Copyright Act | |
| (Act of 4 February 1994, consolidated text Dz. U. 2025 poz. 24): pkt 2 for official | |
| documents, materials, signs and symbols, and, for the normative acts in `dziennik_ustaw`, | |
| also pkt 1. That is a statement of Polish law only. Their status may differ in other | |
| jurisdictions. | |
| The label `public-domain (official documents)` is a descriptive term for this status. It is | |
| not a licence. No Creative Commons public-domain mark (CC0, Public Domain Mark) is applied | |
| to these texts or implied by the label, and no institution below attached a Creative | |
| Commons licence to the texts themselves. IPI PAN's consent to the inclusion of the | |
| parliamentary resource in a collection tagged CC BY-SA 4.0 is described under | |
| `parliamentary`; it is a consent about IPI PAN's own rights. The permission on the Sejm's | |
| terms page is described separately below. | |
| The statement does not extend to: | |
| - third-party fragments inside the documents, for example quotations, letters from private | |
| persons, standards, maps and illustrations; | |
| - personal data, which is a separate matter (see each datasheet's privacy section and the | |
| personal-data passes it describes). | |
| This is our assessment, not legal advice. | |
| ## Reuse framework | |
| The Polish Open Data and Reuse of PSI Act (Dz. U. 2023 poz. 1524) is cited as the framework | |
| for reusing the institutions' own public-sector information (arts. 2(12), 5, 6, 14, 15, 17). | |
| It is not cited as a basis for reusing third-party works that appear in that information; | |
| the Act itself leaves material in which other parties hold copyright outside its scope | |
| (art. 6). Art. 15 ust. 1 lists the conditions an institution may attach to reuse; in our | |
| reading a bar on commercial use is not among them. | |
| ## Sejm sources and the System Informacyjny Sejmu | |
| Applies to `sejm_api`, `sejm_api_2011_2022` and `sejm_committee_transcripts`. As a | |
| precaution we also give the credit for the Sejm material in `parliamentary` and for | |
| `dziennik_ustaw`, where it is not clear that the note applies; see those entries below. | |
| **Source note.** The terms page of the Sejm's information system (System Informacyjny | |
| Sejmu, SIS) asks that material taken from www.sejm.gov.pl carry a note naming its source, and | |
| gives the source as "System Informacyjny Sejmu". The Regulamin Sejmu places committee | |
| transcripts and interpellations, replies and written questions in SIS. We do not know whether | |
| output served by api.sejm.gov.pl is part of SIS: the API states no terms of its own, and the | |
| SIS terms page ends with a link to it ("API dla systemów sejmowych") without saying that its | |
| terms cover the API. As a precaution we give the requested credit: | |
| > Źródło: System Informacyjny Sejmu (Kancelaria Sejmu RP) | |
| **Terms page, read 2026-10-19.** The page allows free use of SIS material with limits. One of | |
| them is the source note above. Another is a clause that SIS material, in particular live | |
| streams and archive material produced by iTV Sejm, "nie mogą być elementem komercyjnej oferty | |
| żadnej agencji, stacji telewizyjnej, portalu ani innego podmiotu". We report the clause for | |
| information. We do not offer it as a licence term of this dataset. We have not verified whether | |
| it reaches the text sources here or binds a re-user; users who plan a commercial use should read | |
| the page and decide for themselves. The page also says that clubs, circles, teams and MPs | |
| answer for their own pages; we did not take material from those pages. | |
| Archive: a verbatim copy of the terms block, with its date and SHA-256 | |
| (`cb4d21a44f5b09d50cdf95518aad77632b2750b5df6535c1d8aa894152b80469`), is kept as | |
| `evidence/sis_copyright_2026-10-19.md` (and its `.content.html` and `.meta.json`) in | |
| [polish-dynaword-v2](https://github.com/slayerlabs/polish-dynaword-v2/pull/121). The page's | |
| URL is https://www.sejm.gov.pl/Sejm10.nsf/page.xsp/copyright. An earlier capture of the same | |
| page by the Internet Archive, 2026-06-03, carries the same source note and clause: | |
| http://web.archive.org/web/20260603115729/https://sejm.gov.pl/Sejm10.nsf/page.xsp/copyright | |
| ## Sources | |
| Dates are those we can document. "Acquired" means the date the text was fetched from the | |
| upstream service, when known; a date in the registry (`added`) is when the shard was added | |
| here and is not an acquisition date. | |
| ### parliamentary | |
| - **Upstream chain:** the Chancelleries of the Sejm and the Senate (stenographic reports and | |
| committee transcripts), then the Polish Parliamentary Corpus (PPC) of IPI | |
| PAN, then this shard. | |
| - **Route:** the per-term TEI dump of 2025-05-21, downloaded directly from IPI PAN's server | |
| (`https://kdp.ipipan.waw.pl/static/ppcdump-tei/<term>-tei.zip`; 28 zips, 26,409,547,075 | |
| bytes) and pinned by size and SHA-256 in `src/fetch_parliamentary.py`. Nothing was fetched | |
| from the Chancelleries' own sites. The shard shipped up to v0.2.5 came from SpeakLeash's | |
| `PPC_corpus` instead; the datasheet describes the difference. | |
| - **Acquired:** 2026-10-07 (the TEI dump). | |
| - **Terms:** the only rights statement we found is IPI PAN's on its PPC page: "The | |
| parliamentary data is public domain." It is a redistributor's statement, not the | |
| institutions'. We read the page on 2026-10-18 and archived it in polish-dynaword-v2 (pull | |
| request 120). We record the sentence as provenance, not as our legal basis. | |
| - **IPI PAN's confirmation, 2026-10-19:** by email, IPI PAN confirmed that its statement also | |
| covers its right as producer of the database, and agreed to the resource's inclusion in this | |
| collection under the collection's CC BY-SA 4.0 tag. That is IPI PAN's consent about its own | |
| rights and about the collection-level tag; it does not give the texts a licence and does not | |
| speak for the Sejm or the Senate. The reply is archived as | |
| `evidence/ipipan_reply_2026-10-19.md` in polish-dynaword-v2. IPI PAN also confirmed the | |
| citation (Ogrodniczuk 2018) as correct for now and said a book on the corpus is in | |
| preparation, so the preferred citation may change. | |
| - **Credit:** IPI PAN; the speaker turns, speaker ids, roles and dates this source is cut and | |
| filtered by come from IPI PAN's TEI markup. PPC's CC BY licence covers its annotations; none | |
| of the annotation layers is shipped. Cite Maciej Ogrodniczuk (2018), "Polish Parliamentary | |
| Corpus", Proceedings of the LREC 2018 Workshop ParlaCLARIN. | |
| - **SIS credit:** Źródło: System Informacyjny Sejmu (Kancelaria Sejmu RP), for the Sejm | |
| material in this source. We give it as a precaution: the source is a copy from IPI PAN's | |
| server, not from the Sejm's system, and whether the note applies is open. It does not | |
| cover the Senate material. | |
| ### sejm_api_2011_2022 and sejm_api | |
| - **Upstream:** API Sejmu, https://api.sejm.gov.pl/ (Kancelaria Sejmu RP): speeches in plenary | |
| sittings, 2011-2022 (`sejm_api_2011_2022`) and from 2023 (`sejm_api`). | |
| - **Terms:** api.sejm.gov.pl states no licence or terms of use; no disclaimer was found. See | |
| the SIS section above. | |
| - **Route:** the API, then Piotr Styła's corpus on the Hub, | |
| `PiotrSty/sejm-speeches-corpus@v1.0.1` (commit `124557799608ce4212cf22fa90ca7904618de1b6`), | |
| then these shards. We did not re-fetch the text from the API. The snapshot is a | |
| contributor's copy: its compiler may hold a database right of his own in it, and this | |
| file does not rely on one being waived or licensed. | |
| - **Acquired:** not recorded in the snapshot's metadata that we hold. `sejm_api` was added on | |
| 2026-08-22 and `sejm_api_2011_2022` on 2026-08-31. | |
| - **Credit:** Kancelaria Sejmu RP, SIS (above); compiled by Piotr Styła. The speaker and the | |
| day-level API URL of each record are in `<source>.attribution.jsonl`. | |
| - **Not implied:** endorsement by the Kancelaria Sejmu RP. | |
| ### sejm_committee_transcripts | |
| - **Upstream:** API Sejmu, https://api.sejm.gov.pl/ (Kancelaria Sejmu RP): full transcripts | |
| ("pełny zapis przebiegu posiedzenia") of committee sittings, terms 9-10, as PDFs | |
| (`/sejm/term{n}/committees/{code}/sittings/{num}/pdf`). | |
| - **Terms:** none at the API; no disclaimer found. See the SIS section above. | |
| - **Route:** the API, with `src/fetch_sejm_committee_transcripts.py`, assembled from the | |
| contributor's pipeline `PiotrSty/sejm-committee-transcripts` at commit `9efc4e2`; text with | |
| `pdftotext -layout`. The script downloads the PDFs from the API; this repository names no | |
| intermediary copy of the data and does not record who ran the download. The shard was | |
| re-cut and re-filtered from the stored pre-filter release (Hub PR 37), because the PDF | |
| cache is not kept. | |
| - **Acquired:** no exact download date is recorded. The latest sitting is dated 2026-09-03 | |
| and the pre-filter release reached the Hub on 2026-09-29, so the download falls between | |
| those dates. The registry's `added` date, 2026-09-18, is not an acquisition date. | |
| - **Credit:** Kancelaria Sejmu RP, SIS (above). Each record's source PDF endpoint and the | |
| sitting's `content_sha1` are in `sejm_committee_transcripts.attribution.jsonl`. | |
| - **Not implied:** endorsement by the Kancelaria Sejmu RP. | |
| ### dziennik_ustaw | |
| - **Upstream:** ELI interface of the Kancelaria Sejmu, https://api.sejm.gov.pl/eli/acts, which | |
| serves the texts of acts published in Dziennik Ustaw (Journal of Laws). | |
| - **Terms:** the ELI documentation (`/eli.html`) states no licence or terms of use; no | |
| disclaimer was found. The texts are normative acts and other official documents (Art. 4 | |
| pkt 1 and 2, above). | |
| - **Contents:** Dziennik Ustaw only. Monitor Polski is not included. The datasheet gives the | |
| measured scope: statutes, regulations, announcements (mostly consolidated texts), rulings | |
| of the Constitutional Tribunal, government statements on international agreements, treaties | |
| and their foreign-language texts, and three EU Council decisions. Foreign-language texts, | |
| such as treaty appendices, are part of the official publication; their status under foreign | |
| law is outside the statement above. | |
| - **Route:** the ELI API directly, with `src/fetch_eli.py` (HTML text of each act). No | |
| intermediary. | |
| - **Acquired:** not recorded. The shard was added on 2026-06-15. | |
| - **Credit:** Dziennik Ustaw; Kancelaria Sejmu RP for the ELI interface. As a precaution | |
| we also give the System Informacyjny Sejmu note, "Źródło: System Informacyjny Sejmu | |
| (Kancelaria Sejmu RP)". The terms page does not mention the ELI interface, so whether the | |
| note applies is open. | |
| ## Takedown and contact | |
| Material is removed on a substantiated request, as described in the README and in | |
| [takedown/PROCEDURE.md](takedown/PROCEDURE.md). | |