Licenses & Attribution

Torato is built on generously licensed and public-domain scholarship. Updated September 18, 2026.

Scripture

World English Bible (Updated), 66-book canon — public domain. From ebible.org. "World English Bible" is a trademark of eBible.org.

Cross-references & geography

• Cross-references — openbible.info, Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY).
• Bible geocoding & region geometry (places, verse links, region confidence contours) — openbible.info Bible Geocoding, CC-BY 4.0.
• Ancient roads map layer — Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations / DARE tiles, CC-BY.
• Modern borders layer — Natural Earth (1:50m), public domain.

Reference works

Presented in the app as secondary to Scripture:

• Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) — public domain.
• Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863) — public domain.
• Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary — public domain.
• Dataset packaging via openly licensed community compilations (CC-BY).

Maps

• iPhone — base maps by Apple Maps (MapKit) under Apple's terms.
• Android — satellite base map: Esri World Imagery — Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community; rendered with osmdroid (Apache-2.0).

On-device AI

• Gemma — the language model that runs on your phone is Google's Gemma, used under the Gemma Terms of Use and its Prohibited Use Policy. Gemma is provided under and subject to the Gemma Terms of Use found at ai.google.dev/gemma/terms.
• LiteRT-LM — Google's on-device inference runtime, google-ai-edge/LiteRT-LM, Apache-2.0.