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footer div:last-of-type {
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="static/css/additional-styles.css">
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<script src="static/js/header-links.js" defer></script>
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</head>
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<body><a class="skiplink" href="policies.html#main">Skip to content</a>
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<header>
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<a class="logo" href="index.html" aria-label="Libera Chat, back to start page">
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<img alt="" src="static/img/libera-color.svg" height="48px" data-proofer-ignore>
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<h1>Libera.​Chat</h1>
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</a>
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<a id="nav-toggle" class="nav-toggle hidden" aria-controls="main-nav"><span>Navigation</span></a>
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<nav class="" id="main-nav" aria-labelledby="nav-toggle" role="menubar">
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<a id="nav-close" class="nav-close hidden" aria-controls="main-nav"><span>Close</span></a>
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<details>
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<summary
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>About</summary>
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<div>
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<a
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role="menuitem"
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href="policies.html"
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><span>Network Policies</span></a>
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<a
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role="menuitem"
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href="guidelines.html"
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><span>Channel Guidelines</span></a>
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<a
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role="menuitem"
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href="news.html"
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><span>Blog & News</span></a>
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<a
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role="menuitem"
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href="about.html"
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><span>About Libera Chat</span></a>
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<a
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role="menuitem"
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href="bylaws.html"
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><span>Bylaws</span></a>
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<a
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role="menuitem"
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href="minutes.html"
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><span>Meeting Minutes</span></a>
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<a
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role="menuitem"
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href="annual-reports.html"
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><span>Annual Reports</span></a>
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<a
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role="menuitem"
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href="sponsors.html"
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><span>Sponsors</span></a>
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</div>
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</details>
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<details>
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<summary
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>Contribute</summary>
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<a
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role="menuitem"
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href="contributing/donate.html"
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><span>Donate</span></a>
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<a
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role="menuitem"
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href="contributing/sponsor.html"
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><span>Sponsor Us</span></a>
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<a
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role="menuitem"
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href="contributing/development.html"
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><span>Development</span></a>
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</div>
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</details>
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<a role="menuitem" href="chanreg.html"><span>Channel Namespaces</span></a>
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<a role="menuitem" href="guides.html"><span>Guides</span></a>
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<a role="menuitem" href="guides/faq.html"><span>FAQ</span></a>
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<details>
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<summary
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class="highlight"
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>Connect</summary>
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<div>
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<a
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role="menuitem"
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href="https://web.libera.chat"
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rel="noopener noreferrer"
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><span>Webchat</span></a>
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<a
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role="menuitem"
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href="ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697"
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><span>irc.libera.chat:6697 (TLS)</span></a>
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<a
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role="menuitem"
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href="guides/connect.html"
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><span>How to Connect</span></a>
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</div>
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</details>
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</nav>
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</header>
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<script async>
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const navToggle = document.querySelector('#nav-toggle')
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const navClose = document.querySelector('#nav-close')
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const mainNav = document.querySelector('#main-nav')
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// progressive enhancement!
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navToggle.classList.remove('hidden')
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navClose.classList.remove('hidden')
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navToggle.addEventListener('click', event => {
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event.preventDefault()
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mainNav.classList.toggle('show')
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})
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navClose.addEventListener('click', event => {
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event.preventDefault()
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mainNav.classList.remove('show')
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})
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</script>
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<main id="main">
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<h1>Network policies</h1>
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<p>Libera.Chat’s services are provided by Libera Chat, a Swedish non-profit
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organisation. It is operated by volunteers from all over the world. Our
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services are available for free, bound to the following rules that we kindly
|
||
ask you to familiarize yourself with.</p>
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||
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<h2 id="our-goals-and-core-values">Our goals and core values</h2>
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<p>Libera.Chat aims to be a place where free/libre/open-source software
|
||
projects, peer-directed projects, and their communities can communicate,
|
||
collaborate, and flourish. In order to be a welcoming place for everyone and
|
||
as required by Swedish law, some basic rules are applied across the
|
||
entire network.</p>
|
||
|
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<h2 id="desirable-content-and-behaviour">Desirable content and behaviour</h2>
|
||
|
||
<p>Our goal is to encourage and foster the development and use of free and
|
||
open-source software projects, peer-directed communities, broadly licensed
|
||
content, and similar. Any group or project falling under this broad
|
||
description is welcome on our network.</p>
|
||
|
||
<p>We also encourage collaboration and communication with users, including giving
|
||
support or receiving feedback. As long as content doesn’t fall within the
|
||
types of unwanted content and behaviour noted in the next section and doesn’t
|
||
disturb the daily operations of the network or other on-topic channels,
|
||
on-topic projects and groups are also welcome to have channels and discussions
|
||
about other content.</p>
|
||
|
||
<p>Please note that groups wanting to use our network for other subjects (e.g.
|
||
financial, political, or dating chats) should use a network that is better
|
||
suited for that kind of content. If you are unsure and wish to avoid a future
|
||
inconvenience, we invite you to check with us first.</p>
|
||
|
||
<h2 id="community-rules-and-recommendations">Community rules and recommendations</h2>
|
||
|
||
<p>As long as within our policies, our communities will manage themselves and are
|
||
free to expand our rules with their own. Libera.Chat staff will not usually
|
||
interfere in channel management and disputes unless network-wide policies are
|
||
violated. We can offer to mediate or help out if our workload allows it, but
|
||
we should not be the first line of defense.</p>
|
||
|
||
<p>We encourage our users, communities, channel owner, and operators to follow our
|
||
<a href="guidelines.html">guidelines</a> to base their rules and conduct on.</p>
|
||
|
||
<h2 id="unwanted-content-and-behaviour">Unwanted content and behaviour</h2>
|
||
|
||
<p>Libera.Chat is bound by Swedish law. Unlawful activities and related
|
||
supporting activities are not allowed. In addition to that, heavy media file
|
||
trading, pornography, and various forms of antisocial behaviour are forbidden.</p>
|
||
|
||
<p>Both by our values and Swedish law, discrimination based on faith, ethnicity,
|
||
sexual orientation, sex or gender expression, disability, or age is not
|
||
permitted. Your personal values (e.g. religious, political, …) do not
|
||
protect you if you participate in discrimination.</p>
|
||
|
||
<p>Inciting violence is not allowed. The same goes for any other behaviour meant
|
||
to deliberately harass, alarm, or distress a person. We also do
|
||
not tolerate libel and defamation.</p>
|
||
|
||
<p>Collecting or sharing the private or confidential information of other people
|
||
is not allowed. This includes but is not limited to information such as phone
|
||
numbers, post addresses, email addresses, employment information, usernames or
|
||
sign-in credentials. This does not apply to widely available public
|
||
information such as the office phone number of a public official. Libera.Chat
|
||
users and staff members have the ability to remain pseudonymous. Linking a
|
||
Libera.Chat username of someone operating under a pseudonym to other
|
||
identities against their will is not considered acceptable either on or off
|
||
IRC. Libera.Chat staff will not answer questions about such information.</p>
|
||
|
||
<p>While we believe in the concept of freedom of thought and freedom of
|
||
expression, Libera.Chat does not operate on the basis of absolute freedom of
|
||
speech, and we impose limitations based on the above rules.</p>
|
||
|
||
<p>Channel operators are asked to manage their channels to adhere to our network
|
||
policies. Channels that demonstrate an inability to meet these minimum standards
|
||
may be asked to find a better-suited network. This isn’t a decision we take
|
||
lightly and we will typically make efforts to guide channel operators to an
|
||
atmosphere in line with our policies first.</p>
|
||
|
||
<h2 id="network-bans">Network bans</h2>
|
||
|
||
<p>Violations of the rules can lead to temporary or permanent removal from the
|
||
network. There might not always be a prior warning of this.</p>
|
||
|
||
<p>In addition to that, there are many reasons why we might remove someone from
|
||
the network, including technical difficulties and false positives in spam
|
||
prevention. If you are unsure why you were removed from the network, we invite
|
||
you to seek clarification by emailing <a href="mailto:bans@libera.chat">bans@libera.chat</a>.</p>
|
||
|
||
<p>Ultimately, our decisions are up to staffer discretion. We expect users to act
|
||
in good faith, be respectful, and not disturb the network operations and our
|
||
communities. We reserve the right to terminate anyone’s access to our services
|
||
at our discretion.</p>
|
||
|
||
<h2 id="nicknames">Nicknames</h2>
|
||
|
||
<p>To register your nickname, please see
|
||
<a href="guides/registration.html">nickname registration</a>. Nicknames on Libera.Chat
|
||
are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, to the first person who
|
||
registers an available name with NickServ. However, we expect users to act
|
||
in good faith and reserve the right to remove a nickname registration at our
|
||
discretion if we believe that this has not been the case. You can group
|
||
additional names to your account, but please remember that these are not
|
||
collectibles and should not be hoarded or squatted.</p>
|
||
|
||
<h3 id="nickname-expiration">Nickname Expiration</h3>
|
||
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>Account names expire when the whole account has been unused for more than 20
|
||
weeks.</li>
|
||
<li>Additional grouped nicknames expire when the grouped nickname has been
|
||
unused for more than 20 weeks.</li>
|
||
<li><em>Special case:</em> Whole accounts used for less than 2 hours after creation
|
||
expire after 2 weeks.</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
|
||
<p>If you will be absent for longer than normal expiration times, please contact
|
||
network staff in advance for potential options.</p>
|
||
|
||
<p>Expiration times can be extended by staff for other reasons including account
|
||
age to as much as 30 weeks past the last use. In rare cases, staff might deny
|
||
a drop request. Accounts marked “Hold” in NickServ INFO output do not expire.</p>
|
||
|
||
<p>Nicknames and accounts which are expired will not automatically be dropped.
|
||
Please contact network staff if you would like to take over an expired
|
||
nickname.</p>
|
||
|
||
<h2 id="channels">Channels</h2>
|
||
|
||
<p>Channels on Libera.Chat fall into one of three categories. Details on these
|
||
can be found under <a href="chanreg.html">channel registration</a>.</p>
|
||
|
||
<p>Channels in the primary namespace (<code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">#</code>) are assigned to registered projects
|
||
and communities. These channels can be registered via the process described in
|
||
<a href="chanreg.html">channel registration</a> and by default, these channels do not expire.
|
||
In case of loss of founders and/or all channel operators, someone
|
||
representing the project or community should contact staff. In case of an
|
||
official project contacting us about a channel already registered to a
|
||
community, our staff will try to find a good solution. However, a community
|
||
ran channel in the primary namespace could be transferred over in this case.</p>
|
||
|
||
<p>Channels in the secondary namespace (<code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">##</code>) are informal channels and allocated
|
||
on a first-come, first-served basis to the first person who registers them
|
||
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.
|
||
They expire after 60 days in which no user on the access list for the channel
|
||
has joined it. If you would like to inherit such a channel, please contact our
|
||
staff. We will gladly have a look and decide which new founder should be
|
||
assigned to best serve the community and our network.</p>
|
||
|
||
<h2 id="unlawful-activity">Unlawful activity</h2>
|
||
|
||
<p>Libera Chat and its staff are required to pass on and act on
|
||
credible information about any unlawful activities as it relates to your use
|
||
of Libera Chat’s services.</p>
|
||
|
||
<h2 id="libera-chat-and-financial-transactions">Libera Chat and financial transactions</h2>
|
||
|
||
<p>In some instances, a user may want to reward a project or one of its
|
||
contributors with, for example, a donation to the project. However, it is
|
||
expected that you carry out your own due diligence before entering into
|
||
financial transactions. Libera Chat accepts no liability for any losses
|
||
incurred as the result of financial transactions you enter into as a result of
|
||
activity in Libera Chat’s services.</p>
|
||
|
||
<h2 id="public-logging">Public logging</h2>
|
||
|
||
<p>Some projects may wish to log their channels publicly, if you do so the logging
|
||
should be authorised by the channel owners and users in the channel should be
|
||
notified (through for instance the topic, entry message, or similar) that
|
||
public logging is taking place. Channel operators should consider ways for
|
||
users to make unlogged comments and a process for requesting the removal of
|
||
certain logs.</p>
|
||
|
||
<p>If you operate a service that scrapes internal channel content or
|
||
published logs, ensure that you have obtained permission to do so from Libera
|
||
Chat staff or the channel owners before you start scraping data, also make
|
||
sure that there is an easy way for channels to opt-out.</p>
|
||
|
||
<p>If you wish to publish logs of a single conversation, please make sure you
|
||
have gotten permission from all participants before doing so.</p>
|
||
|
||
<h2 id="data-retention-and-privacy-policy">Data retention and privacy policy</h2>
|
||
|
||
<p>You can find details about what data we collect, keep, and for how long
|
||
in our <a href="privacy.html">privacy policy</a>.</p>
|
||
|
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(<a rel="license noopener noreferrer" href="LICENSE-content.txt">Content CC BY-NC-SA</a>,
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