Copyrights & Licences

STEPBible - Scripture Tools for Every Person - from Tyndale House, Cambridge
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Copyrights & Licences

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: 

The STEP Bible project consists of different types of resources: 

STEPBible software
BSD 3-Clause License 
 

This software may be freely distributed and freely developed by others.
Derivative software may be freely distributed. Get the software on Github

Tyndale House STEPBible datasets
CC BY-NC 3.0 Licence 

These datasets may be freely used in other free projects. Profit-making projects are invited to ask for an individual licence.
This data may be freely distributed, with attribution to Tyndale House, Cambridge UK 
Get the modules on our public repository or ask us for other data.
Please contact us  with any corrections.

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.

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
Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer 

Hebrew OT morphology & syntax

 



If you see an error in the following please contact us.  

Datasets used with permission

Copyright/Licence



Datasets used with permission

Copyright/Licence



Apostolic Bible Polyglot
English & Greek texts
AB-Strong numbering system 

© 1996 Charles Van der Pool
apostolicbible@gmail.com 
Printed copies from http://apostolicbible.com 

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
Abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs

© 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



NET Bible with notes 

www.Bible.org

<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

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
http://www.ukrainian-bible.co.uk/B01C006.htm
https://www.youversion.com/en-GB/versions/ubio

eBible Bibles

ftp.ebible.org (www.ebible.org)

Declared to be Public Domain in each source file.

www.STEPBible.org is created and supported by Bible scholars at Tyndale House, Cambridge
with a great deal of help from volunteers and partnering by many organisations.