Update README with license attribution

README.md

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 # crate-d12-base
 
-A CRATE (Coding-Representation Auto-encoding Transformer Encoder) language model
+A CRATE (Coding RAte reduction TransformEr) language model
 trained with [nanochat](https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat).
 
 ## Model Details
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 model, tokenizer, meta = build_model("path/to/downloaded/dir", step=20000, device=torch.device("cuda"), phase="eval")
 ```
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+## License
+
+This model is released under the **MIT License**.
+
+Built on:
+- [nanochat](https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat) by Andrej Karpathy -- MIT License, Copyright (c) 2025
+- [CRATE](https://github.com/Ma-Lab-Berkeley/CRATE) (White-Box Transformers via Sparse Rate Reduction) by Ma-Lab-Berkeley -- MIT License, Copyright (c) 2023
+- [CRATE-alpha](https://github.com/UCSC-VLAA/CRATE-alpha) (Scaling White-Box Transformers for Vision) by UCSC-VLAA