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@@ -5,10 +5,8 @@ of contributors to the project grows. It is important to have some policies as
a starting point, but also important not to set these policies in stone until
they have been reviewed.
-## Social Norms and Conduct
-
-Contributors (editors and software developers) are expected to treat each other
-excellently, to assume good intentions, and to participate constructively.
+See also the [Code of Conduct](./code_of_conduct.html) and
+[Privacy Policy](./privacy_policy.html).
## Metadata Licensing
@@ -60,43 +58,9 @@ Attribution license.
## Software Licensing
-The Fatcat software project licensing policy is to adopt strong copyleft
+The Fatcat software project licensing policy is to adopt *strong copyleft*
licenses for server software (where the majority of software development takes
-place), and permissive licenses for client library and bot framework software,
+place), *permissive* licenses for client library and bot framework software,
and CC-0 (public grant) licensing for declarative interface specifications
(such as SQL schemas and REST API specifications).
-## Privacy Policy
-
-*It is important to note that this section is currently aspirational: the
-servers hosting early deployments of Fatcat are largely in a defaults
-configuration and have not been audited to ensure that these guidelines are
-being followed.*
-
-It is a goal for Fatcat to conduct as little surveillance of reader and editor
-behavior and activities as possible. In practical terms, this means minimizing
-the overall amount of logging and collection of identifying information. This
-is in contrast to *submitted edit content*, which is captured, preserved, and
-republished as widely as possible.
-
-The general intention is to:
-
-- not use third-party tracking (via extract browser-side requests or
- javascript)
-- collect aggregate *metrics* (overall hit numbers), but not *log* individual
- interactions ("this IP visited this page at this time")
-
-Exceptions will likely be made:
-
-- temporary caching of IP addresses may be necessary to implement rate-limiting
- and debug traffic spikes
-- exception logging, abuse detection, and other exceptional
-
-Some uncertain areas of privacy include:
-
-- should third-party authentication identities be linked to editor ids? what
- about the specific case of ORCID if used for login?
-- what about discussion and comments on edits? should conversations be included
- in full history dumps? should editors be allowed to update or remove
- comments?
-