Terms of UseAll sudoku puzzles (herafter called "The Sudoku Puzzles") in a forum post containing a link to this post are the intellectual property of Børge Alexander Tetlie Anderssen.
Copyright © 2008-2009 Børge Alexander Tetlie Anderssen. All rights reserved.
1. GENERAL PROHIBITION
Any citation, reference of or use of The Sudoku Puzzles, in part or in whole including image and Puzzle Code, related to any kind of propaganda, especially any kind of explicit or implicit racist, religious or political propaganda, expression or statement is verboten.This prohibition is not limited to, but includes any explicit or implicit statement mentioning any kind of:
- race or racist belief, including origin, skin colour and any kind of impediment or similar.
- religion or religious belief including atheism.
- political party, belief or ideology.
- labour or employer union or alliance.
2. PRIVATE NON-COMMERCIAL USEYou may freely solve, quote, refer to, distribute, reproduce, store or otherwise use The Sudoku Puzzles for any private non-commercial purpose, including file sharing.
HERE you can find the Excel workbook used to produce the images for The Sudoku Puzzles. It is
public domain.
3. PUBLIC NON-COMMERCIAL USEAny public non-commercial distribution, publication, reproduction, storage, file sharing or other usage of The Sudoku Puzzles, in part or in whole including image and Puzzle Code,
outside of this Internet forum MUST include the following information:
- Copyright © 2008-2009 Børge Alexander Tetlie Anderssen. All rights reserved.
- The exact URL of the forum post(s) containing The Sudoku Puzzles
OR
www.rcbroughton.co.uk/sudoku/forum AND www.rcbroughton.co.uk/sudoku/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2778#p2778
Any public non-commercial citation or reference of The Sudoku Puzzles, not including any image or Puzzle Code in part or in whole, is exempt from 3A and 3B.
4. COMMERCIAL USEAny distribution, publication, reproduction, storage or other usage of The Sudoku Puzzles, in part or in whole including image and Puzzle Code, for any kind of commercial purpose is prohibited without prior written consent from the author and copyright holder Børge Alexander Tetlie Anderssen.
Commercial purposes are not limited to, but include:
- Any use of The Sudoku Puzzles, in part or in whole including image and Puzzle Code, for the purpose of sale or resale or for the purpose of producing an item containing the same information contained in The Sudoku Puzzles for the purposes of solicitation for financial gain.
- Using The Sudoku Puzzles, in part or in whole including image and Puzzle Code, in a document produced for sale.
- Using The Sudoku Puzzles, in part or in whole including image and Puzzle Code, in any way in which to anticipate monetary gain.
Any commercial citation or reference of The Sudoku Puzzles, not including any image or Puzzle Code is permitted without prior written consent from the author and copyright holder Børge Alexander Tetlie Anderssen.
5. DEFINITION OF Sudoku Puzzle CodeA Sudoku Puzzle Code is one or more consecutive lines of 81 digits stating the empty cells and given digits for a sudoku puzzle.
An empty cell is represented by the digit 0 (zero).
As an example, here the Sudoku Puzzle Code for
Regular Samurai #8:
100000004000270900020050007057000000000008300038000090000000000000047000003001000
030000000000001000800070030602000001059007002000009006000080200000060000000004080
000000000000002000000000000004005002000001009208030407000000000000043000070290000
000090000000005000206004070000002080009400000560070204000030007051008403030100000
000000000000940000000070580003000040070200065500010000000001600400009002069050070
6. DISCLAIMERANY USE OF The Sudoku Puzzles IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. ALL The Sudoku Puzzles ARE PROVIDED "AS IS," WITH NO WARRANTIES OR GUARANTEES WHATSOEVER, NOT EVEN THE GUARANTEE THAT A SOLUTION OR ONLY A SINGLE SOLUTION EXISTS.
EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW ARE ALL EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, AND OTHER WARRANTIES, GUARANTEES, OR REPRESENTATIONS, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS.
7. AMENDMENTAt any time, these terms of use may be amended (including by modification, deletion and/or addition of any portion thereof).
CONTACTIf you have any questions regarding non-commercial use of The Sudoku Puzzles, please post your questions in this thread.
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