What: Permission-to-use Mahabharata from Internet Sacred Texts Archive
Requested content is from https://sacred-texts.com/hin/maha/index.htm 
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From: ISTA Customer Support
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2023 11:02 PM
To: Mahesh Madhav
Subject: RE: ISTA: distribution for Mahabharata text

Dear Mahesh,
Thank you for your support of the Internet Sacred Text Archive (ISTA)!
Please forgive our delayed response. Being volunteer-run, we are limited in
our resources to respond to all inquiries.

We are most grateful for your donation! This helps the growth of the site and
contributes to its long-term life.

Regarding licenses, we are not currently formally licensing anything from the
Archive.

However, if you decide to use the text in question for your research and
marketing purposes as you described, we have no objections to this.

Thank you again for your support of ISTA!
Best,

ISTA Customer Support


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From: Mahesh Madhav
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2023 3:30 PM
To: postmaster@sacred-texts.com, sales@sacred-texts.com
Subject: ISTA: distribution for Mahabharata text

Dear John,

We are working on updates to the SPEC CPU benchmark developed by SPEC
(Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, the non-profit which publishes
the benchmark), which is a suite of CPU-intensive tests for measuring and
comparing compute performance of different processors.  One of the benchmarks
we would like to include uses large text files as its input.  We would like
to make use of the text-only version of
https://sacred-texts.com/hin/maha/mahatxt.zip as part of this benchmark.

Since our CPU suite is sold as a commercial product, we wanted to inquire
whether you would consider this use of the text-only version reference above
a commercial use for which a license fee is required.  We would not be
representing this text as ours or otherwise charging money for the text
itself (as separate from the benchmark suite), and it will make up a very
small fraction of the overall suite.

Given that context, please let us know if you are willing to approve the use
of the text-only version without a license fee.  If a license fee would be
required, please let us know what the fee would be.

Regards,
Mahesh