Terms of Use
Terms of use for this web site.
This document provides the terms of use for the Novell OpenCourseWare site.
Intellectual Property
All comments posted in Novell OpenCourseWare are the property of Novell, Inc. and are licensed for display, copying, reuse, and distribution according to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License 2.5. The full text of the license is available online at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/.
Representing material posted in Novell OCW as your own work in online or offline settings is strictly prohibited and constitutes grounds for immediate termination of your Novell OpenCourseWare account and may lead to civil and/or criminal charges.
Liability Disclaimer
Information, advice, opinions, and other expressions in Novell OpenCourseWare are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. The entire liability for any use of any materials available through Novell OpenCourseWare lies with the user of the materials.
Abuse of the Novell OpenCourseWare Site
The following list describes activities that are strictly prohibited within the Novell OpenCourseWare site. Attempting or succeeding to allow or commit any of the acts prohibited below constitutes grounds for immediate termination of your Novell OpenCourseWare account and may lead to civil and/or criminal charges. Prohibited activities include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Users shall not do anything to intentionally degrade the performance of the Novell OpenCourseWare site hardware, software, or network resources.
- Users shall not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion of Portal.
- Users shall not post commercial solicitations or "spam" comments in the Novell OpenCourseWare site.
- Users shall not attempt to spread viruses, worms, or other files harmful to computer systems and/or networks via the Novell OpenCourseWare site.
- Users shall not gather personal information about other users (including, but not limited to, harvesting email addresses) via the Novell OpenCourseWare site.
- Users shall not share their password or account with other individuals.
- Users shall refrain from making harassing, intimidating, or libelous statements or other expressions in the Novell OpenCourseWare site.
- Users shall refrain from offensive/inflammatory statements or other expressions (for example, offensive images) in the Novell OpenCourseWare site.
- Users shall not engage in impersonation or other behavior designed to deceive Novell OpenCourseWare site users and/or community leaders.
- Users shall respect the intellectual freedom of others’ expression of their opinions and ideas.
