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2 | Title: The Policies |
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5 | Nickname ownership |
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8 | Nicknames are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, to the first person | |
9 | who registers the name with NickServ. However, we expect users to act in good | |
10 | faith and reserve the right to remove a nickname registration where we believe | |
11 | that this has not been the case. | |
12 | Nickname and account registrations expire ten weeks after they are last used. | |
13 | For nicknames, ‘used’ means that you were using the nickname while logged in to | |
14 | the account which owns it. For accounts, ‘used’ means that you logged in to the | |
15 | account, regardless of the nickname you used to do so. Nicknames which are the | |
16 | primary account name only expire when the entire account is expired. | |
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18 | In some cases, such as for very old accounts, we may, at our discretion, extend | |
19 | the expiry time of a nickname or account. We will not normally do this beyond 15 | |
20 | weeks past the last use. | |
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22 | Some nicknames and accounts, including but not limited to some of those owned by | |
23 | current or former network staff, do not expire at all. These accounts can be | |
24 | identified by the ‘Hold’ flag in their NickServ info output. | |
25 | ||
26 | Nicknames and accounts which are expired will not automatically be dropped. | |
27 | Please contact network staff if you would like to take over an expired nickname. | |
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29 | Channel ownership |
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32 | Channels on freenode fall into one of two categories. Primary channels, which | |
33 | begin with a single # character, are reserved for on-topic projects. If you’d | |
34 | like to take over one of these channels, then you’ll need to be associated in | |
35 | some way with the project in question. Topical, or ‘about’ channels, begin with | |
36 | two # characters, and these are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis to | |
37 | the first person who registers it with ChanServ. As with nicknames, however, we | |
38 | reserve the right to remove or alter registrations where we believe they have | |
39 | not been made in good faith. | |
40 | ||
41 | Primary channels do not expire with inactivity, though they can be claimed at | |
42 | any time by a representative of an on-topic project with the appropriate name. | |
43 | Topical channels expire after 60 days in which no user on the access list for | |
44 | the channel has joined it. | |
45 | ||
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46 | On-topic Use |
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48 | |
49 | freenode’s primary goal is to encourage and foster the development and use of | |
50 | free and open source software projects and other peer-directed communities | |
51 | producing broadly licensed creative output. Any project falling under this broad | |
52 | description is likely to be considered on-topic for the purposes of primary | |
53 | channel naming and other project services which we may provide, but individual | |
54 | decisions may be made at the discretion of staff. | |
55 | ||
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56 | Off-topic Use |
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58 | |
59 | We expect all users of the network, whether affiliated with a project or not, to | |
60 | act in good faith and in accordance with both their local laws and those | |
61 | applicable where freenode operates. Use of freenode and its facilities is a | |
62 | privilege, not a right, and may be withdrawn where we believe that this has not | |
63 | been the case. | |
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65 | freenode and financial transactions | |
66 | ============= | |
67 | ||
552a6a2a | 68 | We appreciate that end users may sometimes wish to reward a project or a project |
69 | contributor after having had a positive support experience in a project channel | |
70 | and it is great when this results in a donation to the project in question or | |
71 | perhaps a micropayment to the contributor concerned or the purchase of an item | |
72 | from the contributor's wish list. | |
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552a6a2a | 74 | Nevertheless, we would urge our users to carry out their own due diligence |
75 | before entering into financial transactions of any kind and stress that any | |
76 | financial transactions entered into on the freenode network must be undertaken | |
77 | entirely at the user's risk and freenode accepts no liability for any losses | |
78 | incurred as the result of such transactions. |