X-Git-Url: https://jfr.im/git/irc/freenode/web-7.0.git/blobdiff_plain/4210b31dea258d0af0cd528446e44b600ef8be42..002487698e8290e133c27854b0d55c6d29e90ebd:/content/pages/policies.md diff --git a/content/pages/policies.md b/content/pages/policies.md index 8538b7d3a..b7b86f100 100644 --- a/content/pages/policies.md +++ b/content/pages/policies.md @@ -4,17 +4,16 @@ Title: The Policies Purpose ================== -The freenode project exists to help peer-directed project communities flourish. -Peer-directed projects combine open, informal participation with broad licensing -and wide dissemination of output. - -freenode provides facilities to peer-directed project communities, including those -of free and open source software (FOSS). The IRC component of freenode is a -self-referential medium, existing mainly to service IRC users — but the network -was created to serve groups that exist outside of IRC. freenode is designed to encourage -community members to improve their skills in the areas of cooperative effort, interpersonal -communication and project coordination, and to create a real-time bridge to the outside world -for our target communities. +The freenode project exists to help all communities. Its focus is peer-directed projects +and open innovation communities. Peer-directed projects combine open, informal participation +with broad licensing and wide dissemination of output. + +freenode provides facilities to peer-directed project communities and the combined efforts +of open innovations, including those of free and open source software (FOSS). Freenode +utilizes IRC to service its users — but the network was created to serve groups that +exist outside of IRC. freenode is designed to encourage community members to improve their +skills in the areas of cooperative effort, interpersonal communication and project +coordination, and to create a real-time bridge to the outside world for our target communities. Nickname ownership ================== @@ -43,20 +42,16 @@ Please contact network staff if you would like to take over an expired nickname. Channel ownership ================= -*These changes are made on 5/22/21 and are a draft. Please send feedback to -feedback@freenode.net or the #freenode-policy-feedback* - Channels on freenode fall into one of two categories. Primary channels, which -begin with a single # character, are reserved for on-topic projects. If you’d -like to take over one of these channels, then you’ll need to be associated in -some way with the project in question. For abandoned project channels that -have moved or are no longer available to the public, you may request the -ownership of the channel be transferred to you. Please make said requests in -the #freenode IRC channel. Topical, or ‘about’ channels, begin with -two # characters, and these are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis to -the first person who registers it with ChanServ. As with nicknames, however, we -reserve the right to remove or alter registrations where we believe they have -not been made in good faith. +begin with a single # character, are reserved for on-topic projects. Primary +channels are required to stay open. If a primary channel closes access to its +users or is in violation of freenode policies, then it will be closed and forwarded +to a topical channel. If you’d like to take over one of these primary channels, then +you’ll need to be associated in some way with the project in question. Topical, +or ‘about’ channels, begin with two # characters, and these are allocated on a +first-come, first-served basis to the first person who registers it with ChanServ. +As with nicknames, however, we reserve the right to remove or alter registrations +where we believe they have not been made in good faith. Primary channels do not expire with inactivity, though they can be claimed at any time by a representative of an on-topic project with the appropriate name. @@ -81,20 +76,16 @@ We strongly urge you to adhere to the [channel guidelines](http://freenode.net/c Off-topic Use ============= -*These changes are made on 5/22/21 and are a draft. Please send feedback to -feedback@freenode.net or the #freenode-policy-feedback* - We expect all users of the network, whether affiliated with a project or not, to act in good faith and in accordance with both their local laws and those applicable where freenode operates. Use of freenode and its facilities is a privilege, not a right, and may be withdrawn where we believe that this has not been the case. -Off topic channels are required to act in good faith in accordance to the freenode -community as a whole. Unlawful activities and related support activities are considered -off-topic, as are inappropriate advertising such as unused channels for the purpose of -polluting the channel list results, transmission of illicit content such as warez or -illegal content, spam, or squatting a namespace preventing others from utilizing it. +Unlawful activities and related support activities are considered off-topic, as are +inappropriate advertising, heavy media file trading, proprietary game software modding, +warez, porn and various forms of antisocial behaviour, including (but not limited to) +political, racial, ethnic, religious or gender-related invective. In accordance with UK law freenode has no tolerance for any activity that could be construed as: @@ -268,7 +259,7 @@ While freenode agrees to accept service of law enforcement requests based on the Last revised July 30, 2018 -This policy was last updated on: 30 July 2018 +This policy page was last updated on: 25 May 2021 If you have any questions about freenode policies, please e-mail policy@freenode.net.