At most journals, the authors of the article must certify that they have the rights to the whole manuscript and agree to relicense it. And I imagine that many b

At most journals, the authors of the article must certify that they have the rights to the whole manuscript and agree to relicense it. And I imagine that many biomedical journals wouldn't see the benefit of making an exception for this unusual edge case, or in spending the money to write new software to do so.