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1 | Title: The Policies |
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4 | Nickname ownership |
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7 | Nicknames are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, to the first person | |
8 | who registers the name with NickServ. However, we expect users to act in good | |
9 | faith and reserve the right to remove a nickname registration where we believe | |
10 | that this has not been the case. | |
11 | Nickname and account registrations expire ten weeks after they are last used. | |
12 | For nicknames, ‘used’ means that you were using the nickname while logged in to | |
13 | the account which owns it. For accounts, ‘used’ means that you logged in to the | |
14 | account, regardless of the nickname you used to do so. Nicknames which are the | |
15 | primary account name only expire when the entire account is expired. | |
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17 | In some cases, such as for very old accounts, we may, at our discretion, extend | |
18 | the expiry time of a nickname or account. We will not normally do this beyond 15 | |
19 | weeks past the last use. | |
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21 | Some nicknames and accounts, including but not limited to some of those owned by | |
22 | current or former network staff, do not expire at all. These accounts can be | |
23 | identified by the ‘Hold’ flag in their NickServ info output. | |
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25 | Nicknames and accounts which are expired will not automatically be dropped. | |
26 | Please contact network staff if you would like to take over an expired nickname. | |
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28 | Channel ownership |
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31 | Channels on freenode fall into one of two categories. Primary channels, which | |
32 | begin with a single # character, are reserved for on-topic projects. If you’d | |
33 | like to take over one of these channels, then you’ll need to be associated in | |
34 | some way with the project in question. Topical, or ‘about’ channels, begin with | |
35 | two # characters, and these are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis to | |
36 | the first person who registers it with ChanServ. As with nicknames, however, we | |
37 | reserve the right to remove or alter registrations where we believe they have | |
38 | not been made in good faith. | |
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40 | Primary channels do not expire with inactivity, though they can be claimed at | |
41 | any time by a representative of an on-topic project with the appropriate name. | |
42 | Topical channels expire after 60 days in which no user on the access list for | |
43 | the channel has joined it. | |
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45 | On-topic Use |
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48 | freenode’s primary goal is to encourage and foster the development and use of | |
49 | free and open source software projects and other peer-directed communities | |
50 | producing broadly licensed creative output. Any project falling under this broad | |
51 | description is likely to be considered on-topic for the purposes of primary | |
52 | channel naming and other project services which we may provide, but individual | |
53 | decisions may be made at the discretion of staff. | |
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55 | Off-topic Use |
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58 | We expect all users of the network, whether affiliated with a project or not, to | |
59 | act in good faith and in accordance with both their local laws and those | |
60 | applicable where freenode operates. Use of freenode and its facilities is a | |
61 | privilege, not a right, and may be withdrawn where we believe that this has not | |
62 | been the case. |