Terms of use and the Library's license

What is this?

Using tri-bible.ai at all, including browsing the Library, means agreeing to the site’s Terms of use. Most of that document is what you’d expect from any site: acceptable use, no warranty, limited liability, and so on. Section 5, Intellectual property, is the one part every Library reader should actually read, because the Library carries a different license from the rest of the site.

The site’s default: all rights reserved

By default, the Terms of use say the site’s content is owned by tri-bible.ai (or its licensors) and may not be copied, modified, or built into a derivative work without written permission. That default covers the marketing site, the Crowdin AI provider, and anything the pipeline produces that hasn’t been published to the Library.

The Library’s exception: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

The Terms of use carve the Library out explicitly:

“The Library (tri-bible.ai/library) is an exception to the above: it is published under an open, non-commercial license, free for anyone to use — the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).”

In practice that means you may copy, share, and adapt anything published under /library — doctrine analyses, glossaries, comparative theology, the full requirements packages — for non-commercial purposes, as long as you:

• Attribute tri-bible.ai as the source.
• Share alike: license any derivative work you publish under these same terms.
• Stay non-commercial: you may not charge for a product or service built on this content.

Every Library page carries a short version of this notice at the bottom, linking to the full license text. Downloading a language’s Translation Skill bundle doesn’t change any of this — it’s the same CC BY-NC-SA content, just packaged to run locally.

Why non-commercial, not fully open

Content License terms use NonCommercial rather than a plainer CC BY-SA specifically to stop someone charging for a paid product built on this research, even though it means the Library technically doesn’t qualify as “open source” under the OSI/FSF definition. That’s a deliberate trade, which is why the site says the Library is “free and openly licensed,” never “open source.”

What isn’t covered

Steps 2 through 4 of the translation pipeline, document translation, back-translation, and the diff report, stay private and are shared only with partner ministries; they are never published to the Library and the CC BY-NC-SA license doesn’t apply to them. If you need that stage of work done for your own language, see Let us serve you under Work with us in the site header.