# Licence and attribution The **Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International** licence (CC BY 4.0) applies to this repository; its verbatim text is in `LICENSES/CC-BY-4.0.txt`, and `LICENSE` carries it together with the directory table and the third-party notices. This file says what it covers, what it cannot cover, and the attribution it asks you to carry. This work is a waqf, offered seeking the reward of Allah, published so that it may be of the widest possible benefit with the fewest possible restrictions. ## What is licensed Everything in this bundle that this project authored: | | | |---|---| | the decomposition of each page into ayah, word, ligature and labelled mark | `pages/` — the structure and every `data-` attribute | | the derived indexes | `index/` — words, per-page sidecars, divisions, surahs, pages, mark taxonomy | | the schemas and the format specification | `schema/` | | provenance and integrity | `VERSION.json`, `CHECKSUMS.txt` | | documentation | `README.md` | Every top-level entry in the bundle is named above. The decomposition is **derived** here: no source package contains it. Which ink belongs to which word, which contour is a `fathah` and which a `maddah`, where one ligature ends and the next begins — that analysis, and the indexes built on it, are the work being licensed. ## The attribution requirement is waived for use inside a product As the rights holder in our own data, we waive the attribution requirement of CC BY 4.0 (section 3(a)) for all users, everywhere, at no cost, irrevocably, **when the material is used inside** an app, site, service, API, bot, tool, research or product — free or commercial. You do not have to show our name, logo or link to your end users merely to use this inside a product, and that includes bundling the data in an app for offline use. This permission **enlarges** what you may do. It adds no condition to CC BY 4.0 and touches no other clause of it. ## Attribution is asked when you republish The test: can whoever receives what you distribute obtain the data **as data**? Then it is republication and CC BY 4.0's attribution terms apply. | republication — attribution asked | use — not asked | |---|---| | datasets, bulk dumps, downloadable exports | bundling in an app for offline use | | mirrors and re-hosting | an API answering individual requests | | APIs handing over the whole corpus at once | search, display and analysis features | | modified or derived copies published as resources in their own right | derived output that does not reconstitute the data | | a repository vendoring these files as a data file | internal use inside an organisation | Machine learning: training, fine-tuning, evaluating, indexing and retrieval are **use**. Publishing our data inside a training set you distribute is republication. Data from "" by Quran.ws, licensed CC BY 4.0. Source: . Version: . Modified: yes/no. Please keep the provenance fields in `VERSION.json` inside the data even where visible attribution is waived, so whoever finds a copy years from now can tell what it is and find its corrections. That is a request, not a condition. ## What is not licensed here **The printed page artwork is not this project's to license.** | | | |---|---| | the glyph outlines drawn in `pages/` | the King Fahd Glorious Qurʾān Printing Complex's artwork | | the Qurʾānic text and the muṣḥaf's vocalisation | KFGQPC, read from their published packages | | KFGQPC fonts, where referenced | KFGQPC, as received | | the DigitalKhatt layout databases in `.cache/digitalkhatt/` | DigitalKhatt, obtained as a QUL export | These remain subject to the rights, licences and conditions of their owners. We acquired no right in them by decomposing, labelling, correcting, organising, converting or distributing them. Nothing in `LICENSE` grants you any right in them, and this project makes no claim about what KFGQPC permits — satisfy yourself before redistributing. `pages/` therefore carries **both**: their ink, and our structure over it. The licence covers the second, not the first. ### The DigitalKhatt layout databases `.cache/digitalkhatt/digital-khatt-v2.db` and `digital-khatt-15-lines.db` are **build inputs, not product**. The pipeline reads them to place words and to budget marks, because they model the KFGQPC V2 1421H print exactly; nothing in `pages/` or `index/` is a copy of them. They are checked in so that a build is reproducible without re-fetching, which is the only reason they are here. They are not ours. They came from the Quranic Universal Library as the *Mushaf layouts* (id 21) and *Digital Khatt V2 word-by-word* resources, and the work is DigitalKhatt's. We make no claim about what their terms permit and grant no right in them: if you intend to redistribute these two files, or a work derived from them rather than from our structure, establish your own position with DigitalKhatt and with QUL first. ## Names, logos and marks These licences grant rights in data and content. They grant **no** right in our names, logos, domains or trademarks, nor in those of the King Fahd Glorious Qurʾān Printing Complex. Use of this material does not mean we endorse, review, approve or are affiliated with any product built on it. ## Accuracy, and your duty if you publish Qurʾānic text The material is provided **as is, without warranty of any kind**, as CC BY 4.0 (sections 5 and 6) provides. Errors can occur in the text, the rasm, the vocalisation or the decomposition, and releases are corrected over time. **Whoever publishes Qurʾānic text to users is responsible for checking it against an approved printed muṣḥaf and for following our corrections.** We are not responsible for errors another party introduces into their copy, nor for releases that have been superseded. If you build systems on this material, please take care not to present generated or paraphrased output as Qurʾānic text, and keep a path back to the trusted source wherever you can. ## Contributions and intent Unless a contributor states otherwise in writing, contributions are offered under the same licence as the material contributed to: MIT for code, CC BY 4.0 for data and content. The benefit intended by this waqf is that which accords with Islam. We do not intend this work to be used in what contradicts that. That is the intent behind offering it; the legal terms of its use remain governed by the licence above, which is standard and unmodified. Corrections: Licensing: The Quran.ws licensing policy is published in Arabic and English; where they differ, **the Arabic is authoritative**. Copyright 2026 Quran.ws. Rights are retained to protect the waqf, not to restrict people's benefit from it.