Biblang Text Licence

Version 1.1 · 4 September 2026

This is the full licence for the Biblang text. The copyright page summarises it and credits the source editions it is built on.

1. What this licence covers

This licence covers the Biblang text: the regularized, Latin-script renderings of the Greek New Testament published on this site and in Biblang print editions, together with the Biblang form system and the editorial decisions behind its spellings.

© 2026 Ryan Phillips, trading as Biblang. All rights reserved except as granted below.

2. What this licence does not cover

• The source editions. The underlying Greek text, its morphological analysis, and the English parallel remain under their own licences. These are listed in section 6 and are unaffected by this document.
• The software. The converter, reader, and admin application are separate works and are not licensed by this document.
• The name, logo, and site design. “Biblang”, the clover mark, and the visual design of this site are reserved.

3. What you may do without asking

You may, at no cost and without seeking permission:

• Read the text, on this site or in print, for any purpose.
• Print or download copies for your own personal study.
• Quote the text — in teaching, preaching, academic writing, reviews, software documentation, or any other work — up to a limit of 1,000 verses, provided the quoted material is not a complete book of the New Testament and does not amount to more than 25% of the work in which it appears.
• Use the text in classroom or study-group teaching, including making copies for the people you are teaching.
• Use the Biblang form system itself — the slots, markers, and rules — to build your own tools, lessons, or texts. The system is a method, and this licence does not attempt to restrict its use.

4. What needs written permission

• Redistributing the complete text, or any substantial part of it beyond the quotation limit above, whether printed, electronic, or as data.
• Any commercial use, including selling or licensing printed or electronic editions.
• Producing a derived edition of the text — a revision, adaptation, or respelling — for public distribution.

Permission is often given for scholarly, educational, and non-profit projects. Use the Report an issue link in the reader to get in touch.

5. Attribution

When you quote the text under section 3, credit it as:

Biblang, biblang.org. Regularized from the SBL Greek New Testament with MACULA Greek morphological analysis.

6. Source materials and required notices

The Biblang text is built from these sources, whose licences continue to apply to them. Fuller detail is on the copyright page.

• Greek text: the SBL Greek New Testament, edited by Michael W. Holmes, © 2010 Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, licensed CC BY 4.0.
• Morphological analysis: MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, © 2022–2024 Biblica, Inc., linguistics by Clear Bible, Inc., licensed CC BY 4.0.
• Glosses: the Dodson Greek–English Lexicon, by John Jeffrey Dodson, released by its author into the public domain. Lemma spellings are matched to Dodson entries with the help of MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets (CC BY 4.0). Glosses neither source supplies were written for Biblang.
• English parallel: the Berean Standard Bible, dedicated to the public domain.

7. Relationship to the source data

This section records the basis on which the text above is claimed, so that readers and rights holders can see the reasoning rather than having to infer it.

The Biblang spellings are generated, not reproduced. Each word is rebuilt from the grammatical description the source editions record — part of speech, case, tense, voice, mood, number, gender — by applying the Biblang rules set out on the learn page. What is taken from the morphological analysis is its factual content: which lemma each word belongs to, and how that word parses. Those are propositions about the Greek text rather than expression, and the lemma forms themselves are the ordinary dictionary headwords of the language. The order of the words, and the Greek wording underlying them, come from the SBLGNT under CC BY 4.0, which carries no share-alike condition. Neither does the analysis: MACULA Greek is CC BY 4.0 as well, so no source the New Testament text is built from imposes share-alike.

The glosses are shown verbatim rather than generated, so they are taken from a public-domain lexicon, which places no conditions on their reuse. MACULA is used only to decide which Dodson entry a lemma belongs to — a lookup, not content — and is credited in section 6 regardless.

Attribution to all source editions is given in full whether or not it is legally required — in section 6 above, on the copyright page, and at the end of every chapter in the reader.

8. No warranty

The text is provided “as is”. It is a reading aid, not a translation and not a critical edition. While every effort is made to preserve the grammatical facts of the sources faithfully, errors in the respelling, glossing, or analysis are possible. Consult the underlying Greek editions for scholarly or authoritative use. No warranty of any kind is given, and no liability is accepted for any loss arising from use of the text.

9. Governing law

This licence is governed by the law of England and Wales.