VAIDIX GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE - dated July 19 1997
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While you distribute Vaidix copy lefted materials you will have a "limited" copyright. A "limited" copyright gives you the right to the your efforts to make the marketable materials and to your fonts, but not to the original copy lefted materials. No one can simply duplicate your product and start selling; they have to put in their own efforts collecting the copy lefted materials to create a product.
In addition to the above following Vaidic Laws also apply to all Vaidix copy lefted materials:
Vaidix materials are meant for all irrespective of category.
We accept word of mouth as a license or proof. Speech(Vac) is divine.
The Vaidix materials belong to the person who knows the subject. You
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site will serve the Vedas under your guidance, and all Vaidix materials
will become your property. (Well, the respective site owners have to grant
that authority to you before you can start using it!)
You can not injure any living being or environment in any way to apply
or test the Vaidix materials.
You must follow Fourfold Dharma (individual, family, society and universal)
while using the Vaidix materials, or else you will lose the eligibility
to peruse them.