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## Third-Party Content Licenses

Parts of this package are not ours, and are bundled under their own licenses (NOT under MIT).
This section is the index of them. It is checked against the tree on every build by
`scripts/check_third_party_index.py` — a license file that describes a package other than the one
you downloaded is worse than no license file at all.

### Reporting guideline checklists — our summaries (`skills/*/references/checklists/*.md`)

These are educational summaries written in our own words, each citing its source. They do not
relicense the underlying guideline.

- STROBE: CC BY (https://www.strobe-statement.org)
- STARD 2015 / STARD-AI: CC BY 4.0 (https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/stard/)
- TRIPOD / TRIPOD+AI: CC BY 4.0 (https://www.tripod-statement.org)
- PRISMA 2020 / PRISMA-DTA: CC BY (https://www.prisma-statement.org)
- ARRIVE 2.0: CC0 (https://arriveguidelines.org)
- CONSORT 2025, SPIRIT 2025: CC BY 4.0 (https://www.consort-spirit.org)

**Non-commercial restrictions.** The following summaries derive from instruments whose materials are
CC BY-NC, and are therefore free to use and redistribute **for non-commercial purposes with
attribution**; commercial use requires permission from the rights holders:

- CARE, MI-CLEAR-LLM, DECIDE-AI: CC BY-NC 4.0
- CLAIM 2024: educational summary of an RSNA open-access checklist (© RSNA)

See `skills/check-reporting/references/LICENSES.md` for the per-file detail.

### Official guideline templates, verbatim (`skills/make-figures/templates/official/`)

These are the guideline authors' own documents, redistributed unmodified:

- CONSORT 2025 checklist + flow diagram (`.docx`): CC BY 4.0.
  © 2025 Hopewell S et al. *BMJ* 2025;388:e081123. doi:10.1136/bmj-2024-081123
- SPIRIT 2025 checklist + participant timeline (`.docx`): CC BY 4.0.
  © 2025 Chan A-W et al. *BMJ* 2025;389:e081477. doi:10.1136/bmj-2024-081477
- STARD 2015 checklist (`.docx`) and flow diagram (`.pdf`): CC BY 4.0.
  Bossuyt PM et al. *BMJ* 2015;351:h5527
- PRISMA 2020 flow diagrams (`.pptx`): built by us with
  `skills/make-figures/scripts/build_prisma2020_template.py`, reproducing the published layout
  (Page MJ et al. *BMJ* 2021;372:n71, Fig 1, CC BY 4.0)

The CONSORT and SPIRIT **2025** updates are CC BY 4.0 — "unrestricted use, distribution, and
reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited". Their 2010 / 2013
predecessors were CC BY-NC / CC BY-NC-ND and could not have been bundled; this file said so for a
long time after the 2025 versions had replaced them.

### Citation styles (`skills/manage-refs/citation_styles/*.csl`)

15 CSL files from the Citation Style Language project: **CC BY-SA 3.0**, unmodified, each retaining
its own `<rights>` element. See `skills/manage-refs/NOTICE.md`.

### Not bundled — download these yourself

- **European Radiology graphical-abstract template** (`EURA-GA-Jan2025.pptx`):
  https://www.springer.com/journal/330 — the journal's own file, with no license permitting
  redistribution. `/make-figures` accepts it via `--template /absolute/path.pptx`.

## Optional Dependencies

The following external packages are NOT bundled but may be installed separately by the user:

- pymupdf4llm: AGPL-3.0 or Artifex Commercial License (https://pymupdf.readthedocs.io)
  Used by: fulltext-retrieval/pdf_to_md.py (optional PDF→Markdown conversion)
  Install: pip install pymupdf4llm