What you may reuse, and on what terms
Most of this site is yours to use, quote, translate and build on, with credit and without asking. Some of it belongs to other people, and this page says which.
What is offered, and on what terms
- The writing on this website
CC BY 4.0, the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
Every page written by Mohd Atasha: the four doctrine documents, the glossary, the notes and the explanatory prose throughout the site, including the Markdown mirrors and the machine-readable files that reproduce them.
Credit him and link to the page you took it from. You may quote it, translate it, teach from it, build on it and sell what you make. No permission is needed and there is no need to write and ask.
- The overview deck
CC BY-ND 4.0, the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International.
The PDF offered on /overview/, as a whole file, including its cover and its page of notices.
Pass it on freely, print it, and use it to introduce him or to put him in front of a programme committee. Please circulate it as it is. Editing the slides and sending them on under his name produces a record of what he said about himself that he cannot see or correct.
- The facts themselves
No licence needed. Facts are not subject to copyright.
Dates, roles, figures, venues and the other matters of record stated here.
Nothing is claimed over them and nothing needs to be asked. A citation is still a courtesy to your own reader, who may want to check the source.
How to credit it
Attribution has no prescribed form. If you would rather not invent one, this works:
Mohd Atasha, “From air gap to zero trust”, https://mohdatasha.com/doctrine/air-gap-to-zero-trust/, CC BY 4.0.
A link is enough on a web page. In print, the address on its own is fine. If you have changed or shortened what you took, say so, so your reader does not attribute your edit to him.
The doctrine documents carry a version number and a revision date, and both are worth including. A position first published in 2018 and revised since is a different claim from a new one, and the citation is the only place a reader can see which they have.
What is not his to give
Five things here are not covered by the licence above. They are named rather than quietly folded in, because a grant that reached them would be a promise this site has no standing to keep.
- The fourteen assessments
They are other people’s words about working with him, published under their own names. They belong to the people who wrote them, and no licence granted here can reach them.
Quote one the way you would quote anyone: briefly, with the name and organisation attached, as they are shown on the assessments page. For anything more than a quotation, ask the person who said it.
- Passages quoted from standards and other sources
The doctrine documents quote standards bodies, regulators and published research directly, so that a reader can see the wording rather than a paraphrase of it. Those passages stay under whatever terms their publishers set.
The licence above covers his argument, not the material it quotes. Each document lists its sources, so a quotation can be taken from the publisher rather than second hand.
- The photographs
No photographer is recorded for the portrait or for the two event photographs, so the site cannot establish who holds the copyright. Offering them under a Creative Commons licence would be a grant it has no standing to make.
The portrait may be used to introduce him or to announce him as a speaker, which is the permission the speaking page has always given. The two event photographs are a record of where the work happened, and are not offered for reuse.
- Names, logos and trade marks
Organisations are named here as a factual record of where work was done or a talk was given. Their marks are theirs, and naming them implies no endorsement by any of them.
Report the same facts in your own words. Nothing here needs a logo to be repeated accurately.
- The code this site runs on
The source is not published, so there is nothing here to license. The colophon describes how the site is built and invites you to verify it from your own browser, which is a different thing from releasing the repository.
Everything the colophon claims can be checked in developer tools without the source. If you want to build something similar, the techniques are described there in enough detail to follow.
Material already in the public domain
The share icons at the foot of articles are from Simple Icons, released under CC0 1.0, a public domain dedication. They are drawn into the page rather than fetched from anyone else's server, which is why this site loads nothing from a third party. No attribution is required for them, and it is given here anyway.
Why this is not one licence for everything
A single notice reading “all content on this site is Creative Commons” would be shorter than this page, and it is what most sites publish. It would also be untrue here, and untrue in the direction that costs a reader something: they would rely on a permission that was never anyone's to give, and find out only if the person whose words they republished objected.
The colophon invites you to check the claims this site makes. A licence is a claim, and it is one of the few that a reader cannot verify for themselves: nothing in the markup shows whether the person granting a permission held it. That asymmetry is the reason to be precise here rather than generous.
The practical effect is narrow. Almost everything a reader wants to reuse is the writing, and the writing is offered on the most permissive terms that still ask for credit.
Terms of use
Four things about relying on what is published here. They are the same four printed on the last page of the overview deck, so the file and the website say one thing.
- This site is information, not advice
Everything here is published for general information. It is not professional, legal, financial or security advice, it is not an offer to act for you, and reading it or writing through the form does not make him your adviser. Advice means someone has looked at your situation; nothing published to everyone can do that.
- An engagement is governed by its own agreement
Where he is engaged, the written agreement for that work sets the terms, not this page. What the site describes about how an engagement is shaped is what is intended, and the agreement is what is owed.
- It is kept current, and it is not warranted
The site is written to be checkable and corrected when it is wrong. It still comes with no warranty that it is complete, current or right for your purpose, and so far as the law allows no liability is accepted for anything done in reliance on it. The doctrine documents carry a version and a status for this reason: check them before quoting a position as settled.
- Links out are not endorsements
Standards bodies, regulators and other sites are linked so a claim can be checked at its source. Nobody here controls what those pages say next, and naming an organisation is a record of where work was done or a talk was given rather than a recommendation of it.
Nothing here asks you to accept an agreement in order to read a page, and there is no account to open. What this site does with personal data is a separate question, answered on the privacy notice.
If this page does not cover you
Ask through the contact page, and say what you want to use and where it will appear. Requests to reuse the writing beyond these terms, to adapt the deck for a particular audience, or to use a photograph in a programme are all ordinary and are usually answered yes.
These terms were published on . A licence already given cannot be withdrawn from a copy someone already holds: Creative Commons licences are irrevocable, which is what makes them safe to rely on. If this page changes, the change applies from that point onwards.