# Reuse and attribution

Copyright © 2026 Wenyuan He. HypoExplorer's original application code is licensed
under the [MIT License](LICENSE). This includes original application and analysis
scripts and their documentation, except files carrying separate third-party terms.
The canonical MIT license is maintained by the
[Open Source Initiative](https://opensource.org/license/mit).

HypoExplorer's original contributions to derived analysis outputs (including
computed differential-expression statistics, enrichment results, summaries and
original figure designs) are licensed under
[Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
The [CC BY 4.0 legal code](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.en)
governs this grant. Credit Wenyuan He / HypoExplorer, link the license and identify
changes. This grant covers only rights the HypoExplorer author holds; it does not
relicense source data, gene-set membership, annotations or other third-party content
included in or needed to interpret an output. No warranty is provided.

Original publications, deposited datasets, gene-set collections, reference
annotations, fonts and software dependencies retain their own licenses and
attribution requirements. The HypoExplorer code and output licenses do not
replace those terms. Follow the original study/accession links and the retained
third-party notices when reusing them. In particular, gene-set provenance records
the collection and MSigDB version used; availability in an export is not a grant
of rights to redistribute the collection.

Use `CITATION.cff` for the software reference. Cite source papers and dataset
accessions separately. Keep the exported provenance and `release.json` with the
results, including the exact comparison and expression scale. There is no
HypoExplorer archive DOI recorded here; do not substitute an original study DOI.

For permission or attribution questions, contact Wenyuan He at
wenyuan.he@mail.utoronto.ca.