Plain version first, because nobody reads the long one: buy it once, use it with your own family forever, print as much as you like, and do not resell it or hand out the files. If it does not work for you, ask and we refund it.

The longer version follows, because a licence that only exists as a friendly summary is not much use to either of us.

Who you are buying from

These materials are sold by Oceanus Networks LLC, a California limited liability company, trading as Wren & Psalter. Contact: support@wrenandpsalter.com. A card charge from us shows on your statement as WRENPSALTER.

What you may do

Everything we sell is a digital file licensed for personal, single-household use. That licence covers:

• Every child in your household, now and later. One purchase, however many students you teach, for as long as you teach them.
• Printing as many copies as your own family needs, on paper or a tablet.
• Editing the files. The documents are editable on purpose. A Bible course description is only honest when it matches the catechism, memory work, and reading actually done in your house, so we expect you to rewrite ours.
• Changing the verse headers, swapping the translation, or taking the verses out entirely. We picked a rotation. Yours is yours.
• Using your edited versions in your own official records, including transcripts and portfolios you submit to a district, evaluator, or college. Those become your documents and we make no claim on them.

What you may not do

• Share, send, upload, or post the original files, including to a co-op drive, a class group, a church file share, a Facebook file section, or a shared folder.
• Resell them, whether edited or not, and whether for money or as a bonus attached to something else.
• Include them in a paid course, membership, or curriculum you sell.
• Use them to make a competing product, including feeding them to a machine-learning system for that purpose.

A co-op or small group teaching from these together needs one licence per household. Ask us and we will sort out something reasonable rather than expensive, because the alternative is that a group of families quietly shares one file and nobody is happy about it. Churches and Christian schools included. We would rather you asked than guessed.

Refunds

Digital files usually come with no refunds at all. Ours do not work that way. If something you bought is not right for you, write to support@wrenandpsalter.com within 14 days and we will refund it. You do not have to explain yourself and we do not ask you to delete anything first, which we could not verify anyway.

That includes buying the wrong edition. The Protestant and Catholic packs differ in the translation, the memory work, the feast days, and the way a Bible credit is described, and it is easy to click the wrong one. Tell us and we will swap it or refund it, whichever you prefer.

We would genuinely rather issue a refund than have someone feel taken. It is also the only honest way to sell a file that cannot be returned.

Scripture and the translations we use

We quote only translations in the public domain. In our Protestant editions that means the King James Version, the American Standard Version of 1901, and the World English Bible. In the Catholic edition it means the Douay-Rheims. We did not choose those for the archaic English.

The reason is dull and it matters. Modern translations are copyrighted works, and the NIV, the ESV, and the NLT each carry a publisher permissions policy with a word limit and a licensing process attached. Reproducing them inside a product we sell to you would need permission we have not sought. So we do not print them. If your family reads the ESV at the table, retype the verse into the header field yourself. Your household copy, your own use, and nothing to do with us.

One honest wrinkle about the KJV. It is public domain in the United States, but in the United Kingdom it sits under perpetual Crown letters patent, and in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland those rights are administered by Cambridge University Press under the patent it holds as the King's Printer (Cambridge University Press, "The Queen's Printer's Patent," cambridge.org/about-us/who-we-are/queens-printers-patent). British publishers ask permission for that reason. American ones do not have to. We sell from California and print for households. If you are reproducing our files commercially in the UK, that is your problem to check, not a thing this licence solves for you.

Hymns, and the trap underneath them

This one catches people who are being careful, so it is worth spelling out.

A hymn is at least two works, sometimes four: the text, the tune, the harmonisation, and any translation. They fall out of copyright separately. The words can be two hundred years old and free while the arrangement printed under them is protected and quite recent. Copyright law treats the new arrangement as its own work, and protection in that new material does not reach back and cover the old material it was built on, nor does using old material put the new arrangement in the public domain (17 U.S.C. 103(b)).

The example we point at is "How Great Thou Art." Carl Boberg wrote "O store Gud" in Swedish in 1885 and that text is old enough to be free. The English version everybody sings is Stuart K. Hine's, from 1949, and it is under copyright and actively administered. Old hymn, protected words.

So when we print a hymn, we print from a source published early enough to be clear of copyright, and we say which one. In practice that means a hymnal or edition published in the United States before 1931, since a published work of that era has run past the ninety-five-year maximum term the statute allows (17 U.S.C. 304). Where a tune is old but the harmonisation we found was not, we either set the melody line alone from an early printing or we leave the hymn out. Nothing gets typeset from a 1970s hymnal because the words at the top of the page looked Victorian.

Two practical notes for you. Our provenance log records the printing each hymn came from, so you can check our reading rather than take our word for it. And this licence covers our typesetting and selection, not any recording or performance you might make. Copying a page for your own family is one thing. Streaming a service is a different question with a different answer, usually a CCLI licence, and your church almost certainly already knows more about that than we do.

About the state requirement summaries

Our state pages are general information, not legal advice. We are not lawyers and we are not your lawyers.

Each entry carries its statute citation, a source link, and the date we last reviewed it, so you can check our reading against the code yourself. Homeschool law changes. Ohio eliminated its annual assessment requirement in 2023 (H.B. 33, 135th General Assembly, home education now codified at Ohio Rev. Code 3321.042), Wyoming eliminated its curriculum filing in 2025 (H.B. 46, effective 1 July 2025, amending Wyo. Stat. 21-4-102), and a summary written before either change is now wrong. Ours will go stale the same way.

Verify current requirements with your own state before you rely on anything here, particularly before a filing deadline. If you find us out of date, tell us and we will fix it and reissue the pack to everyone who owns it.

One more caution specific to this brand. Whether a state counts Bible as an academic credit, and how a religious exemption or church-school filing changes what you owe an evaluator, varies by state and sometimes by district. We note what the statute says. We cannot tell you how your county superintendent reads it.

Public-domain sources

The illustrations, the ornaments, and any historical texts in these materials are in the public domain, and each asset's source is recorded in our provenance log. Our arrangement, typesetting, selection, and written content are ours, and those are what this licence covers.

Delivery

Files are delivered immediately after purchase by download link and by email. If the link does not arrive, check your spam folder once, then write to us and we will send the files directly.

Changes to these terms

If we change this page, the version you bought under continues to apply to what you already own. New terms apply to new purchases. Last updated 25 July 2026.