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What Members are NOT allowed to do: |
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The software that is obtained from the IBM
Academic Initiative is restricted to educational and noncommercial research purposes ONLY by Qualified
Institutions. Educational purposes are defined as conducting education classes, labs or related programs
for teaching and/or learning the Products, or concepts related to the Products, that are part of the
IBM Academic Initiative. For example, classes
on software development, introduction to programming languages, systems design and analysis, relevant mathematics
courses, relevant business process courses, relevant science courses, or relevant engineering courses, to name a few.
Noncommercial research purposes are defined as conducting not-for-profit research projects whose results would be considered
to be in the public domain and suitable for submission to a peer-reviewed journal or conference for publication.
A Qualified Institution is any publicly- or privately-funded body that is defined as one the following:
- University or college offering education which leads to nationally-recognized qualifications or levels of academic
achievement - accredited by a regional or national accrediting council, commission, appropriate government agency, or board
of education of the state or country in which the educational institution is located;
- Teaching hospital associated with an accredited institution;
- Research institution or consortia comprised of accredited institutions;
- Primary, elementary or secondary school, either publicly- or privately-funded, where education is the principal objective
leading to nationally recognized qualifications or levels of academic achievement, and accredited to provide education by national
or regional councils or agencies;
- Certain open standards organizations focused on nurturing the open collaboration development of open source technologies.
Examples of open standards organizations include Eclipse.org and SourceForge.net.
Note: Non-profit research institutions may also apply to the IBM
Academic Initiative. To qualify, the institution must be predominantly research-oriented and must have demonstrable ties to the
academic community. Some examples of qualifying institutions are those associated with teaching hospitals, non-profit think tanks
that publish their works in publicly-accessible journals, publicly-funded research institutions, etc. Due to the unique nature of
such institutions, IBM reserves the right to make the final judgment on whether or not an institution qualifies for membership.
For more information, see Examples below.
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The IBM Academic Initiative is NOT a broad commercial
software-licensing program with unrestricted use. As such, the software that is obtained as part of the IBM Academic
Initiative has some restrictions: such as, it may NOT be used for any infrastructure purposes whatsoever either in the classroom,
the lab, or for administration purposes.
For more information, see Examples below.
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Faculty who are authorized members of the IBM Academic Initiative
("Members") may distribute the Products to students enrolled in their courses by downloading the Products to a secure
server and allowing the students access to the server, and/or by downloading the Products onto a personal machine and copying to
a CD with subsequent copying to lab machines or student machines. Access to the Products may only be provided to students enrolled
in classes being taught by the Member. |
If the Institution has only one server that is shared between the administrative staff and faculty/students, the Products
may not be installed on that server. There must be separate servers for administrative staff and faculty/students. The
IBM Academic Initiative provides server license agreements,
and it is not possible to split server licenses. |
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Each Institution may designate a single point of contact ("I/T Administrator") to manage the distribution and
support of the Products to authorized Members and students enrolled in their courses. The I/T Administrator will administer,
manage and enforce the distribution obligations for the Products according to the
IBM Academic Initiative Program Agreement and these Software
Usage Guidelines. This includes loading the software onto servers and lab machines accessible only by Members and students
enrolled in the Member's course(s). Additionally, the I/T Administrator MUST maintain and respond to
IBM's semi-annual web reporting request for the number of students
taught using the Products, the related courses being taught, and other information requested periodically by IBM. Individual
faculty members who are relying on the I/T Administrator to administer the Products must still join the
IBM Academic Initiative in order to take advantage of the
benefits offered. |
Faculty members of an institution cannot use the Products being managed by the I/T Administrator unless they are a member
of the IBM Academic Initiative. Students may not use the Products
unless they are enrolled in a Member course. |
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Individual faculty members of a qualified institution may join the
IBM Academic Initiative. Graduate Teaching Assistants may also join
provided the faculty member for whom they are assigned is also a member of IBM's Academic Initiative. |
Memberships may not be shared among faculty or departments. This includes a prohibition on sharing membership IDs and passwords
with non-members, including students. |
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Each Member will administer, manage and enforce the distribution guidelines for the Products according to the IBM Academic
Initiative Program Agreement and these Software Usage Guidelines. |
Membership benefits may not be delivered to, or shared with, the institution business operations or administrative departments. |
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Each Member may make copies of the IBM Products for backup purposes,
or to provide a single copy to each student enrolled in his/her class. The
IBM Academic Initiative Member is responsible for semi-annual reporting
of the number of students who have used the Products, and other information requested periodically by
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Copies of the Products may not be provided to students who are not enrolled in a Member's class, nor may copies be provided
to other faculty who are not members of the IBM Academic Initiative.
Students who withdraw from a course being taught by a Member must delete the Products from their personal workstation, and/or be
denied access to the Products via a server or lab machine. |
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Every copy of the Products shall be a true and complete copy, and include all copyright and trademark notices. |
The Products may only be provided to students who are taking at least one credit course from a Member. Students enrolled in
continuing education or non-credit courses are not eligible to receive, gain access to, or use the Products or other benefits
offered by the IBM Academic Initiative. |
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The IBM Academic Initiative provides e-mail-based support for routine,
short duration installation and usage questions for selected Products. e-mail is monitored as available during normal U.S. business
hours, Monday thru Friday, for select Products. In addition, Members have access to web-based self-help and the IBM Academic Initiative
newsgroup. Only Members can submit email support requests (email from students and non-members will not be accepted). |
IBM Academic Initiative support is not provided for performance tuning
and integration with other products. Members are not entitled to support for reporting and seeking a resolution to defects
in IBM code and publications, unless the educational institution has
a separate maintenance agreement with IBM. Problems may be reported via
the IBM Academic Initiative technical support form and will be resolved
on a best efforts basis (for select products only). Fixes and code modifications are only available as new releases and fix packs
are added to the IBM Academic Initiative download catalog. |
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Only Members may use their IBM Academic Initiative ID and password
information to access private areas (e.g., courseware downloads, software downloads) of the IBM Academic Initiative web portal.
(http://www.ibm.com/university/academicinitiative) |
The Products available via the IBM Academic Initiative may not be sold,
rented, leased or transferred to any third party including contractors, other department's personnel, other companies or consultants
performing services for your department or institution, or students not enrolled in a Member's class. This includes entities working
on joint research projects. |
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IBM Academic Initiative subscription licenses are perpetual, except for the Lotus technologies. If an
IBM Academic Initiative Member decides not to renew his/her membership,
he/she can still use the Products that were obtained as a benefit of their membership, and in accordance with the terms and conditions
of the IBM Academic Initiative Program Agreement and these Software Usage Guidelines.
NOTE: This does NOT apply to the Lotus technologies; Lotus licenses are NOT perpetual. See below examples for more
information.
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Once a Member's membership in the IBM Academic Initiative has expired,
the Member will no longer receive program benefits. Additionally, students are no longer allowed to obtain copies of the Products
to load onto their personal machines, or gain access to the Products via a server or lab machine. In the event of membership expiration,
the affected Member must promptly remove any Products that he/she has installed on the institution's servers or lab machines for access
by students. Members can renew their membership by visiting the IBM Academic Initiative web site and completing the semi-annual
questionnaire regarding IBM and open source content being used in the Member's course(s). |
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Other benefits offered by the IBM Academic Initiative include webcasts
and podcasts. The information provided during these sessions, including the audio tapes and/or video tapes of these sessions, may be
used by Members in their classrooms, so long as proper attribution (copyright, trademark service mark, etc.) is given
to IBM as the owner and provider of the information. |
IBM webcasts and podcasts may not be modified in any way. |
Examples of acceptable educational and noncommissioned research use:
- Educational use of communications and collaboration products (e.g.,Lotus Notes, Lotus Workplace,
Lotus Sametime and Lotus QuickPlace) includes the use of these products for communication and collaboration between Members and
students enrolled in their course(s). Members may use these Lotus Products to make or correct assignments, communicate with their
students concerning course-related matters, and manage content for classes or research. Students may use the Lotus Products to turn
in assignments, request help from, or communicate with, their professor (the Member), work with other students enrolled in the Member's
course, or manage class or project content. Members, and students enrolled in a Member's courses, may use these Products in
noncommercial research as described in these Software Usage Guidelines.
NOTE: Lotus Learning Products (e.g., Learning Management System and Workplace Collaborative Services) may ONLY be used to
teach IBM software, hardware or technology using IBM content. All Lotus
licenses are NOT perpetual; this is an exception to the IBM
Academic Initiative Program Agreement. When a Member does not renew his/her membership in the
IBM Academic Initiative, or when the specific class or project is completed,
the Member's and students' rights to use the Lotus Products are terminated.
- Tivoli software may be used for noncommercial research and teaching concepts supporting the Tivoli pillars of 1) performance,
availability, configuration, and operations 2) storage, and 3) security.
- DB2 may be used to teach the concepts, theory or procedures of database structures, database administration or similar
database-related courses. DB2 may also be used in noncommercial research to store, organize, and query data.
- Rational software may be used to teach concepts, theory or procedures in software engineering courses.
- WebSphere Application Server may be used to teach concepts, theory or procedures in web application development.
- AIX and cluster/scalable parallel (SP) software (CSM, PSSP, etc.) may be used to teach the concepts, theory or procedures
of operating systems or clustering/parallelism.
Examples of unacceptable educational and noncommissioned research use:
- None of the Products may be used on any departmental computer that supports the operations of the college, such as Accounting,
Admissions, Facilities, Human Resources, I/T, etc. Nor may the Products be used in commercial research.
- IT staff and faculty members of the institution may not use the Products to develop applications for the academic institution's
infrastructure or commercial sales.
- Tivoli products may not be used in commercial research for configuration management, software distribution/inventory, network
monitoring, storage or security systems. Neither can they be used in classes not formally addressing these concepts. The use of Tivoli
products to maintain the infrastructure within the institution's library, or for the performance of other administrative functions,
is prohibited under the IBM Academic Initiative.
- AIX products obtained via the IBM Academic Initiative may not be used
as the operating system in a lab that is not used to facilitate the teaching and/or learning of development concepts, theories, and
procedures.
- Cluster/scalable parallel (SP) software (CSM, PSSP, etc.) obtained via the
IBM Academic Initiative may not be used to support clusters in a lab that
is not used to facilitate the teaching, learning, and/or research of clustering and parallelization development concepts, theories,
and procedures
- Lotus Learning Products (e.g., Learning Management System and Workplace Collaborative Services) may not be used to deliver courses
remotely for a fee or to deliver non-IBM content. Lotus Notes, Lotus Workplace, Lotus Sametime, Lotus QuickPlace, and other Lotus
Products, cannot be used for communications and collaboration by administrators, IT staff, or faculty who are not Members, nor
students of non-Members.
- DB2 may not be used to set up an institution-wide internal database, nor be used to support or perform any of the institution's
administrative functions.
- WebSphere Application Server may not be used to run web-based applications for the institution.
Please refer to the IBM Academic Initiative Program
Agreement for specific license rights.
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