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Copyright 2026 Benjamin Isaac Wilson

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Third-party components and data
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This framework integrates with, and/or interoperates with, third-party
software, model weights, and datasets that are governed by their own licenses.
These are NOT redistributed in this repository: they are downloaded or supplied
by the user at runtime and remain subject to their original terms. The Apache
2.0 license over this source code does not grant any rights to them.

- HEST-1k dataset (Mahmood Lab) — CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (non-commercial, share-alike).
  Used here for research/benchmarking only. Users must obtain independent rights
  for any commercial or non-research use.

- MSigDB Hallmark gene sets (Broad Institute) — copyright (c) 2004-2025 Broad
  Institute, Inc., MIT, and the Regents of the University of California; provided
  under CC BY 4.0 (attribution required). Individual gene sets may carry
  additional third-party terms (e.g. KEGG, BioCarta).

- Pathology foundation-model backbones (e.g. CTransPath, Phikon, GigaPath,
  Hibou) — each subject to its own license. Some are gated or restricted and may
  prohibit commercial use. Select a backbone whose license fits your use case.

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Conceptual attribution
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The multimodal pathway-histology interaction framing was conceptually inspired
by SURVPATH (Jaume et al., 2024; https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15545). No SURVPATH
source code is used, copied, or adapted in this project; the implementation here
is original.