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Copyright (c) 2026 SCAI Lab (Spinal Cord Injury and Artificial Intelligence Lab). All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use of this software (in source or binary forms, with or without modification) and its associated trained model weights/checkpoints are permitted solely for academic, educational, and non-profit research purposes, subject to the following terms and conditions:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions, and the following disclaimer.

2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions, and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

3. The software, source code, binary forms, and all associated model checkpoints/weights (located under the `models/` directory or downloaded separately) may NOT be used for any commercial purpose, including but not limited to:
   - Integration into a commercial or profit-generating product, platform, or service.
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   - Sublicensing, renting, leasing, selling, or distributing the software or derivatives for financial gain.

4. Any publications, patents, research papers, presentations, or software derivatives that utilize this software or the associated digitization/classification pipeline must credit the original authors and cite this repository.

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