SpinePrep
Copyright 2026 Kiomars Sharifi and the SpinePrep contributors

This product is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (see LICENSE).

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Third-party software
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SpinePrep is an integration pipeline: it calls, and its container recipe
installs, third-party neuroimaging tools that are distributed under THEIR OWN
licenses, not Apache-2.0. The SpinePrep license covers only the
SpinePrep code in this repository.

  - Spinal Cord Toolbox (SCT)      — https://spinalcordtoolbox.com  (MIT-family)
  - PAM50 template (bundled w/ SCT) — De Leener et al. 2018
  - FSL (topup, PNM)               — https://fsl.fmrib.ox.ac.uk
        FSL is free for academic / non-commercial use and MAY be redistributed
        (including inside a container) under those non-commercial terms — the
        full FSL license must travel with it and no fee may be charged. See the
        FSL Software License. SpinePrep nonetheless distributes as a BUILD RECIPE
        (Dockerfile.spineprep) BY CHOICE: each user builds the image locally and
        obtains FSL directly under FSL's own terms, which keeps SpinePrep's
        Apache-2.0 distribution unencumbered by FSL's non-commercial restriction.
        If you redistribute a prebuilt image that bundles FSL, you must comply
        with the FSL license (non-commercial only, license included, no fee).
  - ANTs                           — https://github.com/ANTsX/ANTs  (Apache-2.0;
        the copy SCT bundles as isct_antsRegistration is used)

Users are responsible for complying with the license terms of each bundled tool.
Please cite the underlying tools (SCT, FSL, ANTs, PAM50) alongside SpinePrep;
the auto-generated methods boilerplate and CITATION.cff list them.
