Credits and licences

Everything here is public domain or CC BY. Nothing carries a share-alike obligation. This page exists because several of these licences require attribution, and because a tool arguing for grounded answers should be able to say exactly what its ground is.

The text

Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible, BSB. Public domain. Produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, unfoldingWord, Bible Aquifer, OpenBible.com and the Berean Bible Translation Committee. berean.bible

King James Version (KJV)

The King James Version (1611/1769). Public domain outside the United Kingdom; in the UK it remains under perpetual Crown patent, which is not enforced against digital reproduction. ebible.org

World English Bible (WEB)

The World English Bible. Public domain. ebible.org

Westminster Leningrad Codex (WLC)

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (Westminster Leningrad Codex), with morphology and lemmas from the OSHB project. Text public domain; morphology and lemmas licensed CC BY 4.0. openscriptures/morphhb

SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)

The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition. Copyright 2010 Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software. Licensed CC BY 4.0. sblgnt.com

Lexicons and tagging

Lexical and tagging data (TBESH, TBESG, TAGNT) created by www.STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed CC BY 4.0.

Commentary

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (JFB)

A Commentary, Critical and Explanatory, on the Old and New Testaments by Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown (1871). Public domain. Retrieved from the Free Use Bible API, which marks it Public Domain Mark 1.0.

A commentary is not the text, and SourceText never treats it as one. It sits on its own rung of the authority ladder, it is left out of a passage unless you ask for it by name, and where an answer draws on it the answer says so. Three chapters are missing from the copy we hold — Psalm 146, Mark 15, and Hebrews 13, where the source's own numbering is wrong in a way we will not guess our way past.

Cross-references

Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info, licensed CC BY.

What we deliberately did not use

MorphGNT's parsing of the Greek New Testament is licensed CC BY-SA, and share-alike would attach to everything derived from it; STEPBible's tagging provides the same information under plain CC BY. The corrected edition of openscriptures/strongs may be GPL 3.0, which is unresolved, so the STEPBible lexicons are used instead on the same Extended Strong's keys.