Terms of Use and Disclaimer
Terms of use
Except where otherwise noted, all the course materials on this site, when produced by Raffaele Pesenti, are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribuzione-Non commerciale-Condividi allo stesso modo 3.0 Unported License / Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Raffaele Pesenti Interpretation of "Non-commercial"
This interpretation is inspired by MIT Interpretation of "Non-commercial"
Non-commercial use means that users may not sell, profit from, or commercialize Raffaele Pesenti (RP for short) course materials or works derived from them. The guidelines below are intended to help users determine whether or not their use of RP materials would be permitted by Raffaele Pesenti under the "non-commercial" restriction. Note that there are additional requirements (attribution and share alike) spelled out in our license.
- Commercialization is prohibited. Users may not directly sell or profit from RP materials or from works derived from RP materials.
Example: A commercial education or training business may not offer courses based on RP materials if students pay a fee for those courses and the business intends to profit as a result.
- Determination of commercial vs. non-commercial purpose is based on the use, not the user. Materials may be used by individuals, public institutions, governments and non-profit business so long as the use itself is not a commercialization of the materials or a use that is directly intended to generate sales or profit.
Examples: A non-profit organization may use RP materials for internal professional development and training purposes. A private for-profit company must not RP materials, unless explicitly authorized by the author.
- Incidental charges to recover reasonable reproduction costs may be permitted. Recovery of nominal actual costs for copying small amounts (under 1000 copies) of RP content on paper or CDs is allowed for educational purposes so long as there is no profit motive and so long as the intended use of the copies is in compliance with all license terms. Students must be informed that the materials are freely available on the venus.unive.it/pesenti Web site and that their purchase of copied materials is optional.
Example: An institution in a remote area has limited Internet access and limited network infrastructure on campus, and a professor offers to create CDs of RP materials relevant to her course. The professor may recover the costs of creating the CDs.
- Contact me. If you have questions about acceptable use of RP materials, please contact me.
Disclaimer
Except where otherwise noted, the information contained in the course materials is entirely fictitious, any reference to any person or business whether living or dead is purely coincidental.
The author makes no warranty, either implied or express, for the information contained in this site, neither does it assume any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of this information.