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  <h1>Copyright and Licensing Policies</h1>
  <p>All canonical English translations appearing on <em>Dharma Pearls</em> are made available as a service to the general public. I ask that they not be sold for profit, but organizations and individuals can feel free to use them for educational and religious purposes and distribute them in a non-profit fashion.</p>
	<p>Secondary works such as essays, glossaries, and comparison studies that are planned will be subject to normal copyright protection and also require explicit permission for reproduction.</p>
  <p>Also, please do not include any text, translation or otherwise, that appears on <em>Dharma Pearls</em> to train AI tools, such as translators, chatbots, or any other machine learning application, without explicit permission to do so. This is an <strong>unauthorized</strong> reproduction of said original work. If any materials that appear on this website have already been included in a machine learning application in any way, please remove it immediately.</p>
	<p>In general, it’s better to link to the original documents found at <em>Dharma Pearls</em> rather than copying them to other sites or applications because they will be subject to periodic revision and improvement. Copies made elsewhere will become obsolete over time.</p>
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