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## Third-Party Content Licenses

The following reporting guideline checklists are bundled under their original licenses
(NOT under MIT). See each file for attribution:

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

The following checklists are NOT bundled due to license restrictions.
Users should download them directly from official sources:

- CONSORT 2010: https://www.consort-statement.org (CC BY-NC)
- CARE: https://www.care-statement.org
- SPIRIT: https://www.spirit-statement.org (CC BY-NC-ND)
- CLAIM 2024: https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.2020200267

## 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
