Software

Software produced by the CrossWire Bible Society is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). In short, this license permits free usage of the software for any purpose, provided the source code is made freely available for the software and any derivitive is also released under the GNU General Public License. The texts distributed with the software need not be released under any particular license. Publishers are free to distribute this software with their copyrighted texts, provided notice that the software is freely available is displayed in a conspicuous place. For detailed information about the GNU General Public License visit http://www.gnu.org.

Module Add-ins

Text Module Add-ins made available for software on our site hold differing copyrights. Each module contains About information detailing the terms of which each text is released. Many texts that have been made compatible with our software are not yet distributable by CrossWire Bible Society. If you would like to help secure permission from a publisher for a particular text, please visit our copyright website, http://www.crosswire.org/sword/copyright/, for details on how you can help.