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 License
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-The transcoder, core encoder libraries, and most specification documents in this repo (unless otherwise explictly indicated) are Copyright © 2016–2026 Binomial LLC. All rights reserved except as granted under the [Apache 2.0 LICENSE](https://github.com/BinomialLLC/basis_universal/blob/master/LICENSE). The transcoder utilizes no 3rd party libraries or dependencies, other than Zstd (which is optional but limits the transcoder to non-Zstd utilizing codecs).
+The reference encoder library, transcoder, and most specification documents in this repo (unless otherwise explictly indicated) are Copyright © 2016–2026 Binomial LLC. All rights reserved except as granted under the [Apache 2.0 LICENSE](https://github.com/BinomialLLC/basis_universal/blob/master/LICENSE). The transcoder utilizes no 3rd party libraries or dependencies, other than Zstd (which is optional but limits the transcoder to non-Zstd utilizing codecs).
 
 See our [DEP5 file](https://github.com/BinomialLLC/basis_universal/blob/master/.reuse/dep5) for the complete list of software and their licenses in this repo. The encoder library is Apache 2.0, but it utilizes some open source 3rd party modules (in 'encoder/3rdparty' and in the 'Zstd' directory) to load [.QOI](https://qoiformat.org/), [.DDS](https://github.com/DeanoC/tiny_dds), [.EXR](https://github.com/syoyo/tinyexr) images, to handle [Zstd](https://github.com/facebook/zstd) compression, and to unpack ASTC texture blocks. See the [LICENSES](https://github.com/BinomialLLC/basis_universal/tree/master/LICENSES) folder.