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The first and highest principle of this project is to enable worldwide free access to the Word of God in the form it was preserved in the King James Version of the Holy Bible from 1611 in as many languages as possible.
Free access means, that everybody, that wants to read any translation produced in this project, can do so without being charged in any way. Therefore we will offer every resulting translation online for free. But in addition to that King James Version International gGmbH will use all of its resources to spread all the translations to everybody in the world, be it in printed form or any media applicable.
The works of this project are published under the following Creative Commons license:
Attribution 4.0 International
CC-BY This license requires that reusers re-users give credit to the creator. It allows reusers re-users to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, even for commercial purposes.
Why did we choose this license?
Simply because we don’t intend to make money out of the Word of God. People may use our works to write their own books or articles. Even our charitable non-profit company can issue products or services to finance its work. But by no means we will earn money out of the Word of God itself or its translations, but we will use teh the revenues exclusively to support the principles stated here.Every action the project or the company take has to support the main goal, mentioned in Principle No. 1. This may also include indirect support, such as education, research and promotion to spread the project itself and, of course, its results worldwide.
If financially achievable and applicable to support Principle No. 1 subsidiaries of the company may be founded worldwide. This can e.g. give international contributors more opportunities to tax-deduct donations or to donate work directly and also to further spread education and promotion. All subsidiaries have to comply to the goals and legal restrictions of and to be 100 percent owned by King James Version International gGmbH in Germany.
King James Version International gGmbH can not be sold, neither in total nor in part. No investor or other entity is able or allowed to take over even a minority of the company and its works.
If for any reason the King James Version International gGmbH has to be terminated, the rights on its works have to be transferred to another entity that fulfills fulfils and guarantees the principles stated here, without money exchange. If there’s no destination entity to be found that fulfills fulfils this requirements, the works of King James Version International gGmbH will be declared public domain.
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