Licenses & Sources
Every text on Lumens is public domain or used under the licence shown. Texts were converted from the source files to per-book JSON without changing the wording (Latin paragraph-mark brackets removed).
| Text | Edition | Source | Licence | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Bible | Douay-Rheims, 1899 American Edition (73 books, Catholic canon) | eBible.org engDRA | Public domain | Vulgate psalm numbering |
| Spanish Bible | Reina-Valera 1909 (66 books) | eBible.org spaRV1909 | Public domain | No deuterocanonical books in this edition |
| Latin Bible | Biblia Sacra Vulgata Clementina (1592/1598) (73 books) | eBible.org latVUC | Public domain | |
| Greek Old Testament | Septuagint (LXX) with Apocrypha, as edited by Sir Lancelot C. L. Brenton (1844/1851) | eBible.org grcbrent | Public domain | Includes Greek Esther, Daniel additions, 1 Esdras, Prayer of Manasseh, 3–4 Maccabees |
| Greek New Testament | The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition (SBLGNT), Michael W. Holmes, ed. | eBible.org grcsbl · sblgnt.com | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). © 2010 Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software | Attribution: “Scripture quotations marked SBLGNT are from the SBL Greek New Testament. Copyright © 2010 Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software.” Text unchanged; only converted to JSON. |
| Greek New Testament (alt.) | Patriarchal Text 1904 (Antoniades), with 20 later corrections | eBible.org grcbyz | Public domain | Byzantine text used by the Greek Orthodox Church |
| Indonesian Bible | Alkitab Yang Terbuka (AYT), © 2011–2024 YLSA-AYT (66 books) | eBible.org indayt · ayt.co · ylsa.org | Free non-commercial use with attribution (eBible: CC BY-ND 4.0, non-commercial; YLSA: CC BY-NC-SA for derivatives). Text unchanged. | Non-Catholic canon (no deuterocanon). Lumens is non-commercial. TB, BIS and Terjemahan Lama are © Lembaga Alkitab Indonesia and are not included. |
| Daily Indonesian readings (external link) | bahtera.net — daily Catholic Mass readings in Indonesian | bahtera.net | External link only; no text is bundled or fetched by Lumens. | Linked from the calendar day panel and the home page. bahtera.net shows the current day only (no date-specific URLs). |
| Lectionary references | Daily Mass reading citations 2026–2030 (Rito Romano) — citations only, no text | Parola Viva Open Data, curated by Giovanni Novelli | CC BY 4.0 | Re-keyed by liturgical day and cycle so they apply to any year; a few citations added from the Lectionary for Mass (facts, not copyrightable) |
| Calendar & astronomy | Computus (Meeus/Jones/Butcher); moon phases, equinoxes/solstices, eclipses per J. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms (2nd ed. 1998); ΔT polynomials by Espenak & Meeus | Original code for Lumens | Code: part of this site | Algorithms are not copyrightable; implementations written for Lumens |
Not included, and why
- Indonesian Catholic texts (Alkitab Deuterokanonika / Terjemahan Baru, Lectionary in Bahasa Indonesia): © Lembaga Alkitab Indonesia (LAI) and the Indonesian Bishops’ Conference (KWI/Komisi Liturgi). A written licence from LAI (for Bible text) and KWI (for the lectionary) is needed.
- Terjemahan Lama (1958): LAI still asserts copyright and SABDA distributes it without a free licence, so it is not used.
- Official English/Spanish lectionary texts (NABRE, Jerusalem Bible, Libro del Pueblo de Dios, etc.) are copyrighted; Lumens shows the readings from the public-domain Bibles above instead.