Attribution
Credits & Attribution
PortLev Academy is built in the open and stands on the work of others. Some tracks are adapted from open-source courses. Every source is credited here in full, with its license — and again on every track and lesson that draws on it.
Adapted open-source material
AI Engineering from Scratch
by Rohit Ghumare · MIT License
A 428-lesson, 20-phase technical course teaching engineers to build AI systems from first principles. PortLev Academy adapts the conceptual core of select lessons — rewritten in plain language, with all code and mathematics removed — for non-technical leaders.
Adapted in: How AI Actually Works, AI Agents, Explained, AI Risk and Governance for Leaders
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How we adapt source material
The open-source courses we adapt are written for software engineers. Our audience is executives, consultants and coaches who are not technical specialists. So we do not republish source material as-is. We rewrite it.
Every adapted lesson is reworked from the ground up: code and mathematics removed, concepts re-explained in plain language, examples reframed around real professional decisions and the depth calibrated for a leader who needs to make sound calls about AI, not build it. Highly technical modules with no leadership relevance are left out entirely.
When a license requires it, we preserve it and honor it. Adapted tracks carry the source license; an attribution notice appears on the track page and on every lesson. The original authors deserve full and visible credit, and they get it.
PortLev Academy's own licensing
PortLev Academy is itself open. Our site code is released under the MIT License. Our original written content is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0). You may fork it, teach it, translate it or build on it — with attribution.
Adapted material remains under its original source license, noted on each track. Where a track is adapted, the source's license governs that adapted content.