Rights and reuse

The Latin is public domain

Wyclif’s Latin, in Pollard’s edition of 1886, is long out of copyright, and transcribing it faithfully creates no new copyright. Take it and do as you like. Pollard’s marginal summaries are public domain too.

What is licensed

The English translation; the notes, headnotes and other prose on this site; and the encoding as a compilation: the division into passages, the alignment of Latin and English, the page-and-line addressing, and the recorded readings and decisions. All of that is offered under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

What that means in practice

Yes, freely, without asking: quote a passage in a sermon, a lecture or a dissertation; assign a chapter to a class; correct us and publish the correction. Credit the edition, link the licence, and say if you changed something.

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Other material

The Fordham transcription is credited on About this edition. Mark Thakkar’s article is published under CC BY 4.0.

Attribution

John Wyclif, Dialogus: Latin text and English translation, translated with notes by Wilson Pruitt (Wroot Press), draft, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0. wyclif.wrootpress.com

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