project-direction.json

1{2  "recorded_at": "2026-10-05",3  "source": "Requester handwritten notes and instruction to start all improvements",4  "maintainer": "Conor Livingston",5  "role": "Maintainer and steward of an open-source Bible translation",6  "purpose": "An openly reusable Japanese Bible: readers can inspect, correct, redistribute and build tools around it, as with open-source software. Digital ministry at the technological frontier.",7  "ambition": "The most transparent Bible translation possible; not a verified ranking of all translations.",8  "reuse_decision": "Implement a permissive public release: CC BY 4.0 for project-owned translation text and annotations; MIT for project-owned software. Third-party materials retain their own terms.",9  "contribution_policy": "Anyone may suggest corrections to wording and furigana without signing in. Suggestions are reviewed before an edition changes.",10  "editions": "Reading edition and an academic study export of the same edition, not a new or scholar-reviewed translation."11}12