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This copyright notice is dated 29 July 2018.

1. Introduction

The purpose of copyrights is to ensure that the creator of a work gets the credit they deserve for what they create. This also means that someone cannot simply use that work without the creator’s permission. Permission to use that work is granted in the form of a license. It is the inherent right of the creator to decide who uses the work and how. This includes not allowing people to make money off of that work without at least the creator’s permission. If this means that the creator does not provide a software product, document or something else under an “open” license, then we support that right to choose.

The Linux Tutorial completely respects the rights of authors and artists to decide for themselves if and how their works can be used independent of any existing licenses. This means if you are the author of any document presented on this site and do no wish it to be displayed as it is on this site or do not wish it to be displayed at all, please contact us and we will do our very best to accommodate you. If we are unable to accommodate you, we will remove your document at your request as quickly as possible.

If you are the author of any document presented on this site and would like a share of the advertising revenue, please contact us using the standard Feedback Form.

2. Use of Copyright Notices

The use of copyright notices throughout the site is intended to ensure that it is clear to all visitors that the material is copyrighted and thus the visitor is limited, to some extent, in what they can do with the material. Please keep in mind that the intent is not to limit you in terms of accessing the material. Rather, the intend is to ensure that credit and any remuneration is given to the people who deserve it.

If you find that we have violated someone’s copyright or their choice how they wish their material to be presented, either directly or indirectly, then please contact us. We will correct the situation as quickly as possible, either by ensuring the material is presented in a manner the copyright holder chooses or by removing it from the site. If you are the copyright owner, please let us know the urgency of your request and we will try our best to accommodate you.

3. What material is copyrighted and licensed

All of the material on this site is the copyright of the original creator (author, artist). Some of this material has been previously published in various places, but unless otherwise stated, the creator stills own the copyright. This material is not only protected by the moral obligation to protect the creators’ rights, but also by a number of different laws (which might not discourage some people). Much of the material was taken from my books Linux User’s Resource and Supporting Windows NT and 2000 Server and Workstation, which were published Pearson Education Inc.

If you want to contribute
material, you decide how you would like to license the material (i.e. such as making it available under a GPL-like license). For details on submitting material, see the

Tutorial FAQ. In any event, you are free to put any copyright on the material you choose.

Linux is a Registered Trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other product names mentioned herein and throughout the entire web site are trademarks of their respective owners. No endorsement by Linus Torvalds or other trademark holders is implied. No claim of ownership of these trademark is expressed or implied.

4. What You Can’t Do

Downloading the entire site using mirroring tools (for example: wget)
is EXPLICITLY prohibited and forbidden. You are not allowed to
do it. To do so is an explicite violation of usage policy of this site and
if it continues, I will take the appropriate action.
To do so is also a violation of the license for all pages copyrighted
by James Mohr (which accounts for 95+% of the site).

Keep in mind, that just because it is on the Internet, does not mean it is in the public domain. The fact that I and the other creators have made this information available for free on my site, does not mean we relinquish any rights to the material. In the same way you cannot borrow a book from a public library and then copy (or scan) the complete contents, you cannot simply download the contents of my site. It is provided for your free of charge, but not free of copyright.

The real reason for this restriction is to limit bandwidth usage, for which I pay real money. The material is now available as a complete package from SourceForge. Please download it from there.

Some might think that this violates some mystic law of Linux. Again, Linux is all about choice. There is no obligation on my part or the part of the other creators to provide the material under any specific license (or provide it at all). A great deal of time and effort goes into sites like this and the people who contribute to them have the right to decide what is done with their material.

5. What You Can Do

From this site you are authorized to save single pages to your
system, and if you really want, you could save all of the pages
individually. However, you are still bound by the applicable licenses.
Remember that all of this material is being offered to you for free.
Please keep that in mind before you go off about the the restrictions and
limitations of copying the material.

6.Applicable Copyrights and Licenses

All material created by James Mohr is copyrighted 1994-2010 by James Mohr and is
licensed under a modified GNU Free Documentation License:

Copyright (c) 1994-2010 James Mohr.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 published by the Free Software Foundation; with the modifications listed below. A copy of the GNU Free Documentation License can be found here.

Distribution of material copyrighted by James Mohr or derivative of such material in any standard (paper) book form is prohibited unless prior permission is obtained from the copyright holder. Distribution of substantively modified versions of material copyrighted by James Mohr is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. Distribution of material copyrighted by James Mohr in a commercial product is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder.

Use of material copyrighted by James Mohr in any commercial endeavor is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. A “commercial endeavor” includes, but is not limited to training or other educational courses, seminars, “webinars”, other web sites, for which a fee is required. This specifically includes, but is not limited to, web sites that charge a fee to access the site even if the copyrighted material is not subject to the fee or does not constitute a substantial portion of the material provided. Public education institutions (such a state universities and colleges, community colleges and similar institutions) in any country are except from this requirement and need only inform the copyright holder of such use. Public education institutions that make references (including hyperlinks) to this site are requested to inform the Webmaster.

Keep in mind that this does not mean I am going to prevent you from using it. I just want to know where my stuff is being used. (among other things)

If you believe your organization operates for the “common good”, but is not technically considered an public education institute, please contact us to discusse use of the material. For example, if you are a charitable organization, military school or training facility, or similar organization, it is likely you will be able to use the material. We will do our best to support your efforts.

A number of pages in the tutorial do not fall within the above mentioned license and are licensed under various other license agreements. Each author or license holder has the right to determine the terms of the license under which the material is made available. As of this writing, the following license agreements are being used:

GNU Free Documentation License

7. Invalidity

If any provision of this agreement shall be determined to be unenforceable as applied to any particular case or circumstance, the provision or provisions in question shall not be unenforceable in any other case or circumstance, nor shall any other provision or provisions herein contained thereby be or become unenforceable and such provision shall be reformed so that it would be enforceable to the maximum extent permitted in such circumstances.

8. Headings The headings of articles and sections contained in this Agreement are for reference purposes only and shall not affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.

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