# MIT OpenCourseWare Notes

MIT OpenCourseWare publishes material under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 on its terms page, while also warning
that some external or third-party linked content may be excluded from that license.

That means a Didactopus ingestion pipeline should not simply mark an entire pack as reusable without nuance.

Recommended handling:
- record MIT OCW course pages as licensed sources
- record individual excluded items explicitly when identified
- preserve the license URL in source metadata
- record whether Didactopus generated an adaptation
- generate an attribution artifact automatically
- propagate a noncommercial/sharealike flag in pack metadata when derived content is redistributed