Permission letters
Letters to the people and organisations whose work this project uses, or would like to use. Each one explains the project, how their work is or would be used, our attribution and non-commercial safeguards, and the exact permission we are asking for.
None of these letters has been sent. Sending a message on the project’s behalf needs the maintainer, so the maintainer sends each one (see How to send one below). Until a source replies, we keep to its published terms, and anything that needs permission is built without content (see the source library).
Contact routes were checked on each organisation’s own public website on 1 November 2026. Where a site blocked the check, the letter says so and gives the contact page to confirm in a browser. We never guess an email address.
Status
| Organisation | Ask | Contact | Status | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VRI | Confirm the bundled VRI Pāli text (and planned commentaries and page markers) is acceptable under its non-commercial terms; preferred credit wording | help@tipitaka.org (shown on https://www.tipitaka.org/ as “Contact the Webmaster”) |
draft, not sent | vri.md |
| DPD | Confirm live lookups and a compact offline copy (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) are welcome; preferred credit wording | digitalpalidictionary@gmail.com (shown on https://docs.dpdict.net/contact/) |
draft, not sent | dpd.md |
| BCBS / Access to Insight | Confirm live retrieval (and official GitHub/CDN mirrors) of ATI pages with each page’s own notice; confirm the sutta and subject index pages may be read to find texts; study-guide reading plan as titles and links | contact@buddhistinquiry.org (shown in the Access to Insight FAQ, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/faq.html#contact) |
draft, not sent | bcbs-access-to-insight.md |
| dhammatalks.org | Confirm live retrieval of Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu’s sutta translations in a free tool fits the CC BY-NC 4.0 terms as the site reads them; link-only use of BMC and talks | feedback@dhammatalks.org (site feedback and administration; shown on https://www.dhammatalks.org/) |
draft, not sent | dhammatalks.md |
| PTS | Confirm use of the CC BY-NC volumes (Horner, Woodward, Ñāṇamoli and others) in a free tool; advice on an authorised digital source; DPPN rights | info@palitextsociety.org (shown on https://palitextsociety.org/contact/) |
draft, not sent | pts.md |
| Ānandajoti Bhikkhu | Confirm the licence of ancient-buddhist-texts.net translations and that live retrieval with attribution is welcome | anandajoti@gmail.com (shown on https://ancient-buddhist-texts.net/Textual-Studies/DPPN/index.htm) |
draft, not sent | anandajoti.md |
| Wisdom Publications | Options for Bhikkhu Bodhi’s and Ñāṇamoli’s translations: short quotations with citation and a link to buy, or links to Wisdom’s digital editions | contact page: https://wisdomexperience.org/contact/ (not verified: the site blocked our automated check) | draft, not sent | wisdom-publications.md |
| BPS | Confirm BPS free-distribution texts on Access to Insight may be served with the BPS notice; permission or links for other BPS translations | bps@bps.lk and contact form at https://www.bps.lk/contact |
draft, not sent | bps.md |
| Amaravati | Permission to use the English translations and layout of the Amaravati chanting book for paritta texts, with credit, free distribution only; links to their recorded talks and any talk index by sutta (#46) | contact page: https://amaravati.org/support/amaravati-publications/ (not verified: the site blocked our automated check) | draft, not sent | amaravati.md |
| Abhayagiri | Permission to use the English translations and layout of the Abhayagiri chanting book for paritta texts, with credit, free distribution only; links to their recorded talks and any talk index by sutta (#46) | contact form: https://www.abhayagiri.org/contact/other | draft, not sent | abhayagiri.md |
| DharmaNexus | Permission and licence terms to use DharmaNexus computed Pāli parallels (or link to them by passage) with attribution | contact page: https://dharmamitra.org/people (email link on the page; address not readable by our check) and https://github.com/dharmamitra | draft, not sent | dharmanexus.md |
| DPPN editors | Confirm the copyright status of the DPPN (original and revised) and permission to bundle short entries, or link to entries, with attribution | anandajoti@gmail.com (shown on https://ancient-buddhist-texts.net/Textual-Studies/DPPN/index.htm) |
draft, not sent | dppn.md |
How to send one
- Open the letter and read “Before sending”.
- Fill in your name and reply-to address, then send it (or submit the contact form) yourself.
- Change its status above to “sent,
". - When a reply arrives, change the status to “replied,
", and record what was agreed in [docs/sources.md](/pali-canon-claude/sources.html). A "no" is recorded too, and the source becomes link-only.