Bible Time

Licenses and Copyrights

This page summaries the License and Copyright issues for articles found on Bible Time.

Creative Commons

All materials on this website, that we have created, are copyright by the author named on the specific page and licensed under a Creative Commons License. You're free to do anything you wish with the material except change the license, and you need to attribute to the author when the author's name is given on specific pages. The Creative Commons License provides a complete legal definition of what you can and cannot do with these materials.

Beware: on many individual pages there is a composite of material and there are many different licenses involved. For materials we did NOT create there are other licenses involved. These may restrict your use more than Creative Commons.

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Ministry Commons

The reason for our careful use of licenses stems from the Bible's Sharing Chain Mandate. For details, see the Ministry Commons website.

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Draft

All material on this website should be considered a draft. Anything that does not make sense should be checked with the individual page author. Author names are usually clickable and provide direct feedback. You can also use the Contact link, found in page footers, in order to provide feedback and ask questions.

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Linking

There are no restrictions on links to this website.

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Bibles

Bibles on this website are either in the public domain or used on some sort of license.

• KJV: The King James Version of the Holy Bible is in the Public Domain. Copy and publish it freely.
• ASV: The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible is now in the Public Domain. Feel free to copy it for your friends, give it away, sell it, and publish it.
• RSV: The Holy Bible, Revised Standard Version 1952 (RSV), the authorized revision of the American Standard Version of 1901, Copyright (c) 1946, 1952, 1973 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Free for non-commercial, academic, and personal distribution.
• WEB/HNV: The World English Bible: Messianic Edition is in the Public Domain. This translation is also known as the Hebrew Names Version.
• Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary: This dictionary is from "Hitchcock's New and Complete Analysis of the Holy Bible," published in the late 1800s. It contains more than 2,500 Bible and Bible-related proper names and their meanings. Some Hebrew words of uncertain meaning have been left out. It is out of copyright, so feel free to copy and distribute it.

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Software

All of the computers supporting this website use software that is licensed in ways compatible with the Bible's mandate for a Sharing Chain. The following are the licenses for the common software systems used on this web site.

Ubuntu Linux The web site, and machines used to create it, run Ubuntu Linux. Generally the Kubuntu flavor is used, but we also run Ubuntu Server and UbuntuStudio.
Apache Web Server The Apache web server is used to display the web site.
PostgreSQL Database The Database used here is PostgreSQL.
PHP Scripting Language All of the code on the web site is written in PHP.
Lucene Search Engine Searching the website is done with Lucene.

Phil Stone
Updated October 28, 2007