There is no explicit licensing information at the TREC site, the statement below was taken from the original OHSUMED corpus available here: http://ir.ohsu.edu/ohsumed/ohsumed.html The National Library of Medicine has agreed to make the MEDLINE references in the test database available for experimentation, restricted to the following conditions: 1. The data will not be used in any non-experimental clinical, library, or other setting. 2. Any human users of the data will explicitly be told that the data is incomplete and out-of-date.