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Translations produced here
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Why CC BY?
We want Sikh knowledge to travel. Permissive licensing is in keeping with the spirit of the Guru Granth Sahib's universal address: there is no charge for darshan of the Word, and there should be no friction on a sangat re-using what we publish. We ask only that other projects credit the work so the wider Sikh-tech open commons can keep growing.
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