The table below gives a high-level summary of copyrights and licenses used throughout the STEP Bible software. For a comprehensive information about specific modules, please visit: http://www.stepbible.org/versions.jsp
| The STEP Bible project consists of different types of resources: | ||
|---|---|---|
| CrossWire: Bibles and commentaries Available for redistribution via websited etc: (more available at the CrossWire repository) | Hundreds of datasets are kindly provided by CrossWire. |  |
| CrossWire: JSword and related datasets | JSword is the core library of routines which enable STEP to display and search the Biblical text. It has been developed over many years by many programmers on a public licence. | |
STEP Bible software | This software may be freely distributed and freely developed by others. |  |
Tyndale House datasets  | These datasets may be freely used in other free projects. Profit-making projects are invited to ask for an individual licence. |  |
| Intellij IDEA | An IDE to help developers produce robust code efficiently |  |
ej Technologies | install4j provide the framework for creating our desktop installation packages for Windows, Mac, ... jProfiler is a tool for developers helping to ensure STEP remains as fast as possible. | |
| SIL Fonts Open Font License (OFL) | Hebrew and specialist fonts for languages around the world |  |
ETCBC dataset from the | Hebrew OT morphology & syntax |  |
If you see an error in the following please contact us.
| Datasets used with permission | Copyright/Licence | |
|---|---|---|
| Apostolic Bible Polyglot English & Greek texts AB-Strong numbering system | © 1996 Charles Van der Pool | |
| Teknia Greek Dictionary | © 1995-2013 Teknia owned by Bill Mounce http://www.teknia.com/greek-dictionary | |
| Liddell - Scott - Jones Greek Lexicon, 9th ed | Electronic edition under CC-BY-SA by the Perseus Project of Tufts University (who must be offered all modifications) | |
| Abridged Thayers Greek Lexicon | © Larry Pierce of OnlineBible.net olbsupport@onlinebible.net | |
| New American Standard Bible tagged text | © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation | |
| English Standard Version | ©2011 Crossway Bibles, http://www.esv.org/ a division of Good News Publishers | |
| SIL Hebrew English Glosses | © Summer Institute of Linguistics Intl. 2003 ScriptureCopyrightPermissions_Intl@sil.org | |
| Chinese Standard Bible NT | © Asia Bible Society 2013, B&H Publishing Group | |
| Tagging for the Chinese Standard Bible and the Chinese Union Version | © Asia Bible Society 2013, B&H Publishing Group | |
| Tagging of the ASV & WEB | © CrossWordProject 2013 Wade Masfield <support@crosswordproject.com> | |
| SBL Greek New Testament | © Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software 2010 | |
| Strongs tagging for French Louis Segond Bible | © Larry Pierce of OnlineBible.net olbsupport@onlinebible.net | |
| Arabic: Holy Bible, New Arabic Version (Ketab El Hayat) | Copyright © 1988, 1997 by Biblica, Inc.® |  |
| English NIV-UK: Holy Bible, New International Version® (Anglicised), NIV® | Copyright © 1979, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® | |
| Chinese: Chinese Contemporary Bible (圣经当代译本修订版) | Copyright © 1979, 2005, 2007, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® | |
| Farsi/Persian: Farsi Contemporary Bible | Copyright © 1995, 2005 by Biblica, Inc.® | |
| Portuguese NVI: Biblia Sagrada, Nova Versão Internacional®, NVI® | Copyright © 1993, 2000 by Biblica, Inc.® | |
| Romanian: Holy Bible, New Romanian Translation (Noua Traducere În Limba Română) | Copyright © 2006 by Biblica, Inc.® | |
| Russian: Holy Bible, New Russian Translation | Copyright © 2006 by Biblica, Inc.® | |
| Spanish NVI: La Santa Biblia, Nueva Versión Internacional® NVI® | Copyright © 1999 by Biblica, Inc.® | |
| Swahili (aka Kiswahili): Kiswahili Contemporary Version (Neno: Bibilia Takatifu) | Copyright ©1984, 1989, 2006 by Biblica, Inc.® | |
| MultiLex Biblical Lexicon for Strongs in French, Spanish & English | Custotian: Biola University |  |
| Russian translation of Strongs lexicon | www.manuscript-bible.ru | |
| <many more coming> |
If you own a dataset which we have mistakenly regarded as Public Domain or Creative Commons,
please contact us and we will immediately investigate it.
| Datasets not needing permission | Source | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Bible & Commentary modules (any not listed by name on this page) | Crosswire.org www.crosswire.org/sword/modules/ | <see individual copyright notices by clicking on [ i ] next to the modules> |
| Ohienko Ukranian Bible | OSIS
| Declared to be Public Domain at |
| eBible Bibles | ftp.ebible.org (www.ebible.org) | Declared to be Public Domain in each source file. |