# Licence — The Koran

- **Translation:** The Koran
- **Translator:** John Medows Rodwell
- **Language:** English
- **First published:** 1861
- **Licence:** Public Domain
- **Basis:** Public domain worldwide. Translator John Medows Rodwell died 1900 (life+70 term expired 1970); first published 1861, so also public domain in the United States.
- **Verified at:** https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Koran_(Rodwell)

## Retrieval

The verse text was retrieved from **fawazahmed0/quran-api** (Unlicense (public-domain dedication)), a public-domain compilation of public-domain translation texts, pinned to immutable commit `6be8e17f2a0c13b1f33b1c3057f73cb28d5e848e` (https://github.com/fawazahmed0/quran-api).

The right to redistribute this edition derives from the work's own public-domain status recorded above, not from where the bytes were fetched. Alignment to the corpus is **verse-level only**: there is one translation line per counted verse, keyed by the verse identifier. No word-level alignment is claimed or provided.