# MesoConnect licensing and data-use notice

This repository contains several kinds of material. The terms below apply according to file type. No section grants rights that the MesoConnect contributors do not own.

## 1. Atlas data

The MesoConnect NIfTI atlas maps, subject-count tables, and other data products derived from WU-Minn Human Connectome Project data are redistributed under the WU-Minn HCP Consortium Open Access Data Use Terms:

https://hcp-db.humanconnectome.org/study/hcp-young-adult/document/wu-minn-hcp-consortium-open-access-data-use-terms

Users must comply with the official terms, including the requirements concerning participant identification, institutional oversight, redistribution of original or derived HCP data, acknowledgment of HCP support, and citation of relevant HCP methods publications. The official HCP terms control if this notice and the official terms differ.

This section is a data-use notice. It does not replace or modify the WU-Minn HCP Consortium Open Access Data Use Terms.

## 2. Documentation and original media

Unless a file states otherwise, the README files, original tutorial text, and original MesoConnect figures are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Attribution should identify the MesoConnect authors, link to the source repository and license, and indicate whether changes were made. This license does not apply to third-party materials or to the HCP-derived atlas data covered by Section 1.

## 3. Software and website code

Original shell scripts, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in this repository are licensed under the MIT License below.

Copyright (c) 2026 MesoConnect contributors

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

## 4. FSL MNI152 template

`templates/MNI152_T1_1mm_brain.nii.gz` is third-party material distributed with
FSL and remains subject to the FSL license. It is not covered by the MIT or CC BY
4.0 grants above. FSL permits non-commercial use and non-commercial redistribution
subject to its license conditions; commercial use requires a separate license
from Oxford University Innovation.

Official license: https://fsl.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl/docs/license.html
