The License

Daimon Classics adaptations are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). The translations of classical philosophy underneath these adaptations are in the public domain.

What This License Means

Plain language: you can read these books, share them, quote them, translate them, even remix them or use them commercially. The only thing we ask is attribution.

What You Can Do

• Read the full text online, free, forever.
• Share copies digitally or in print.
• Quote any passage in your own work.
• Translate the adaptation into another language.
• Remix it: write a new edition, abridge it, annotate it, set it to music.
• Use it commercially, including selling printed editions of your remix.

What We Ask in Return

Attribute the source. The simplest form is:

“From Daimon Classics, released under CC BY 4.0. daimonclassics.com”

If you remix or translate, indicate that yours is a derivative work, not the original adaptation. The full license text is at creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.

Why We Chose This

Classical philosophy belongs to everyone. These ideas have been read for two thousand years because every generation rediscovers them. Locking a modern adaptation behind copyright would treat the philosophy as property. It is not. The translation work is ours. The philosophy is the world's.

Source Translations

The classical texts underneath these adaptations are public domain in their original languages and in the older English translations we worked from. Our adaptations are new work, copyrighted to Alexandria Solutions LLC and immediately released under CC BY 4.0. We name the translator we adapted in each book's “A Note on the Text” front matter.