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# Masscollabs Services Code of Conduct

* This code of conduct file is licensed under the terms of GFDLv1.3 or any later. 
* This Code of Conduct applies to Masscollabs Services Platform

## Why we are writing a Code of Conduct and why it is so important

* We are building a free, open and collaborative "core community" in other words a community for communities and a company for companies.
* We need to tell ourselves in a clear way which lets outsiders understand what we are doing easily.
* We know what is Free Software and Open Source and "other" software ideas or paradigms. Let's get started with licenses.

### Domains and licenses

* We decide three layers for each organization within Masscollabs Services and masif. For in-house purposes and for our partners which we have a very close contact, like in person, we prefer Copyleft licenses. Mostly we prefer AGPLv3 or later because we are focused on Internet technologies. But for other software GPLv3 or later, for documentation GFDLv1.3 or later, for artworks CC BY-SA 4.0 or later licenses are what we prefer for our own works. 
* For outsiders and who are **not** in our community instances, maybe other companies, individuals or state organizations we'll offer BSD 3-Clause license. The reason is easy to understand, we are the authors so we can easily write anything from scratch anytime. 
* All code base will be written by our Core Team but contributions is needed and since we are building a free organization it is very important for us to listen other authors' ideas. But our approach is not to rely on any technology so we are trying to be a free and an independent organization, and an open system. Open system does **not** mean Open Source but we mean that we are trying to develop things for every operating system and hardware platform.

### Domains and their structures

* We have taken our organization model from FreeBSD and OpenBSD, but we are following OpenBSD model for software development, especially the approach to the software security issues.
* Therefore we have three layers in every organization, core team, committers and contributors. So lets get started writing their roles and why we want that organization model.

### Core Team

* As we understand from software, it should be done in a short time and it should be done well and simple, maybe in 5 minutes or 30 minutes. Core Team is responsible from maintaining all information database in the domain and subdomains. So Core Team can delete any harmful information such as malware code/binary or any kind of information that includes a hate speech, racism and sexism. It is very important for us to learn from other organizations. So we are curious to learn other Free Software and Open Source code of conduct standards written before us.

### Committers

* Committers are mid-level or experienced developers in domain and subdomains or any information/content authors which has the right to add/commit information to our information database. We are a freely, open and collaborative company so we believe in free speech/freedom of speech and we are happy to get feedback and contributions from committers within our domain, subdomains or the people who is **not** working with us directly.

### Contributors

* Contributors are newcomers to our domain and subdomains so we want to take care of their skills and abilities, such as how they do useful things for **public**. We want to encourage committers and contributors to make their own services, communities and companies for the same reason to serve to the **public**.

### Why three layers 

* We wanted to be careful and make a better service rather than publishing any content that is not production ready. Thus we are letting people to use our information database easy for their **real-world** needs both without any cost or paid options. You can sell our information database or use them in your **own** organization freely under the terms of the licenses mentioned above. 

* You **don't have to follow** our Core Team policies within the domain or subdomains so you may easily adapt our information database for your needs. If you don't like Copyleft versions you may ask for BSD 3-Clause information database. We think that it'll be better to make our organization free, open and collaborative.

### Our Core Values

* freedom of speech
* openness
* collaborative working
* privacy of community members and customers
* and also [Four Freedoms written by Free Software Foundation](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html)

## On Software Distribution and Support  
	
* experimental branch
* community branch
* professional branch
* workstation branch
* enterprise branch
* government branch
* military branch

all same on free software platform

## Happy hacking!

* Hacker is someone who is exploring limits of the related activity such as a Jazz improvisation with any instrument, or practicing martial arts in a clever way by following the martial arts culture, so the hacker culture itself and martial arts culture or Jazz culture are very similar thus we can say for all of them in short "hacker". They are all hackers. To be honest there are different approaches in hacker culture and this pluralism is what we need and like, and we encourage hackers to make their own practices and follow their own methodologies to do good and useful things for the **public**. 

* freedom is good
* openness is good
* collaboration is good
* privacy is good
* we demand to do good and useful things for the *public* and do **not** want to rely on any technology so we are authors and we can make something better replacing existing information and technology.




