Every source class, its licence, and the obligations carried into the derived layers.
| Source class | Licence | Obligations carried into derived layers |
| Qur'an text + classical Arabic works (pre-modern) | Public domain | none - attribution kept as scholarship |
| QuranEnc translation shelf (74 editions) | Per-edition terms, version strings carried | quotation discipline; no re-publication of full editions beyond fair scholarly use until per-edition rights are confirmed |
| OpenITI acquisitions (waves 1-8: hadith, sirah, rijal) | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | derived layers that substantially incorporate these texts are NC + ShareAlike; the waqf is non-commercial forever, so NC is native; SA obligations stated here |
| noorbayan i'rab treebank | MIT | attribution in the manifest |
| The waqf's own engines & layers | intended CC BY-SA (readings/layers) + MIT (code) at publication | declared in the charter; ratified by the owner at release |
Law: free forever; nothing sold; every landing keeps its per-wave licence record beside its sha. This ledger is the single rights statement the Council asked for.
AL-WAQF · the Scholar’s Desk · 2026-09-09.