Licence

AlyOps is published under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 — free to read, share and print; not to sell, and not to publish modified or translated versions.

The content of this site is published under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Read it, share it, print it, work from it, teach from it. Do not sell it, and do not publish a changed version of it.

The three letters, in three lines

The detail is below. The full terms are linked at the foot of this page.

• BY · Attribution: Credit Mostafa Aly and link back. Every copy has to say where it came from.
• NC · NonCommercial: You may not sell it, and you may not make it part of something you sell.
• ND · NoDerivatives: Share it as it is. A changed version — including a translation — is not yours to publish.

What you may do

This is the part that matters, so it is first. This material was written to be used, and a licence that nobody reads past the prohibitions is a licence that stopped the thing it was meant to allow.

• Read all of it, free, without an account, online or offline.
• Share it — send the link, forward a page, post it in your team's channel.
• Print it. Put a procedure on the wall beside the machine it describes.
• Use it to run your bar: work from it, train from it, hand it to a new starter on their first shift.
• Teach from it — a shift briefing, an internal induction, a class, a college course.
• Quote it in your own writing, with the credit set out below.
• Keep a copy. Nothing here expires, and nothing has to call home to keep working.

What you may not do

Two restrictions. Each says where its real definition lives, because it is not here.

Do not sell it, and do not put it inside something you sell

Charging for access to this material, packaging it into a paid course, a paid app or a subscription, printing it into a book for sale, or reselling a printed copy — all of that sits outside the licence. Using it to run a bar that charges for coffee does not: the restriction is aimed at selling the material, not at working with it. The operative definition of NonCommercial is in the legal code and that definition governs, not this paragraph. If your use sits near that line, ask first.

Do not publish a changed version — and a translation is a changed version

Share the work as you found it. An edited, abridged, remixed, re-branded or re-worded version is not something this licence lets you publish. Note precisely what the legal code says, because the distinction matters and it is not the one most people assume: it permits you to produce adapted material and it does not permit you to share it. A private annotation you make for yourself is therefore a different act from a public re-issue. Where that line falls is set by the legal code's own definitions of Adapted Material and Share — read it there.

Two things stated plainly

Neither of these is buried. One is a promise that cannot be withdrawn; the other is the misunderstanding this page most expects to have to correct.

This licence cannot be taken back

A Creative Commons licence is irrevocable. Once this material has gone out under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, that permission cannot be withdrawn from the copies already distributed — not by taking the site down, not by rewriting this page, not by choosing different terms later. A future version of the material could carry different terms; what you already hold stays under the terms it arrived with. This is a commitment, not a caveat. A permission that could be pulled is not a permission anyone can plan around, and the reason to publish under a licence at all is so that people can rely on it.

A translation is a derivative — this is the part most people get wrong

This site is published in six languages — English, Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali and Tagalog — by its author. That is his to do. It is not an invitation to do the same. Under ND, translating this material and publishing the result is producing a derivative and sharing it, which the licence does not permit, however faithful the translation and however good the intention. If you want it in a seventh language, ask. Say which language, who the readers are, and where it would be published. Permission outside these terms is the author's to give, and this is the request he most expects to receive.

How to credit it

Four things, and a fifth if you used only part of it.

• The title of the work: AlyOps علي أوبس.
• The author: Mostafa Aly.
• A link back — to the page you took it from, or to the site.
• The licence, named and linked: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
• If you used only part of it, say so, and do not let the part stand in for the whole.

AlyOps علي أوبس by Mostafa Aly — https://www.mostafaaly.com — licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Scope, and what a licence is not

What this covers

The content of this site: the written guidance, the procedures, the reference material, the articles, and the translations of them published here. Nothing is licensed here by implication — if something on the site is not the author's to license, this page does not license it.

This page is not legal advice

It describes the licence in plain language so that someone who is not a lawyer can act on it. It is a description of the licence, not the licence, and it is not legal advice. Where this page and the legal code differ, the legal code is what applies.

Responsibility for running a venue stays with its operator

Food safety, electrical work, ventilation and every other regulated matter are determined by your local authority and confirmed by them — which is how this site treats them throughout: it states what determines a requirement and defers the requirement itself. Permission to read and reuse the material is not a warranty that the material fits your jurisdiction, your equipment or your menu.

The two documents

Creative Commons publishes both. They are not interchangeable, and mistaking one for the other is the commonest way to get a licence question wrong.

The deed — human-readable summary · Summary only

The one-page summary Creative Commons publishes. It is easy to read, it is the version most people have seen, and by its own statement it is not a substitute for the licence.

The legal code — the licence itself · This one governs

The operative text. Every definition that decides a real question — what counts as commercial, what counts as adapted material, what counts as sharing — is in here, and this is the document that governs.

Asking for more than the licence gives

What the licence does not allow, the author still can. Permission beyond these terms is his to give — a translation, a paid course, a chapter in a book, a version adapted for a specific group. Ask, and say what you want to do with it. Ask the author