© 2026 Athan Clark · OpenChronology · GPLv3 · No warranty · Terms & privacy
Copyright and software rights
OpenChronology — exact rational timeline software
Copyright (c) 2026 Athan Clark, an individual.
OpenChronology first-party software, including the web interface deployed at
timescale.info, desktop application, standalone HTML edition, server, official
plugins, build scripts, and accompanying first-party documentation, is licensed
under the GNU General Public License version 3 only (SPDX: GPL-3.0-only).
You may redistribute and modify it under that license. See LICENSE for the full
terms. It is provided WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, including merchantability or fitness
for a particular purpose, to the extent permitted by law.
Third-party components retain their own copyrights and licenses. See
THIRD_PARTY.md, bundled dependency notices, and vendor licenses. The independent
rational-map, sqlite-rational, and rational-conformance projects and historical
projects in the enclosing development workspace retain their existing licenses.
Users retain ownership of their timelines, notes, images, and original plugin or
formatter scripts. Exporting or hosting those materials does not automatically
license them under the GPL. Domain registration and rights in the OpenChronology
and timescale.info names are separate from the software license; no domain
registration, endorsement, or trademark rights are granted by this notice.
No nonprofit organization is represented as the copyright holder or operator.
Hosted service terms (draft)
# timescale.info — terms of service
Draft version: 2026-10-15. Not yet effective. Operator: Athan Clark, an individual.
Contact and jurisdiction: pending operator confirmation; see LAUNCH.md.
These terms cover the hosted service at timescale.info and desktop connections
to that service. Independent installations have their own operators and policies.
## Accounts and use of the service
When these terms become effective, creating an account or using authenticated
hosting services constitutes agreement to these terms. Public visitors may read
timelines without an account. Keep credentials and connected identity-provider
accounts secure, provide truthful information, and report unauthorized access.
An account is personal unless you are authorized to act for an organization.
Accounts are for people aged 13 or older; the service does not offer accounts to
children under 13 or parental-consent accounts. Sign-up asks for your year of birth.
Anyone may read public timelines without an account. This eligibility rule
does not restrict rights under the software license or use of a separate offline
installation.
## Young people
Accounts of people who may be under 18 (by the year of birth they gave) get the most
protective settings, which they cannot turn off:
- warnings before sensitive content (below) always show, and its images stay blurred
until chosen;
- the timelines they star are not shown on their profile;
- browsing leaves out labelled timelines.
Timelines start private for everyone. The service has no private messages, no contact
between people outside public pull-request discussions, no location features, no
advertising and no profiling for advertising. A parent or guardian who believes their
child under 13 has an account, or who has a concern about a teenager's account, can
contact the operator; the account can be closed and its data deleted. If you are
young and something here upsets or worries you, use **Report** or tell an adult you
trust.
## Your data and collaborators
You retain ownership of your timelines, moment metadata, images, comments, and
original plugin and time-formatting scripts. You must have the rights needed to
upload, link, copy, and share those materials. Images are shown by linking to where
their owners host them; the service stores the links, not copies. Link only images
you may share, and respect any limits their hosts set.
Do not upload passwords, sensitive secrets, or other people's private information
without authorization. The service is not designed for regulated confidential
records or safety-critical decisions.
You grant Athan Clark a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free permission to store,
process, reproduce, back up, transmit, and display your submitted content solely
to operate, secure, and provide the service and the sharing you request. You grant
authorized recipients permission to view, execute attached restricted scripts,
and export content, and to fork and prepare change recommendations where forking
is enabled, through the functions and access you enable. This is not an
ownership transfer, an advertising license, or permission to sell your content.
This permission ends when content is deleted, subject to necessary backup removal,
legal preservation, and recipients' previously obtained copies.
Timelines start private. Public timelines are readable, searchable, and exportable
by anyone. Public visibility does not automatically make your content GPL-licensed,
public domain, or freely reusable for every purpose. Specify a content license if
you want broader reuse rights. Making a timeline private later cannot retract
copies already downloaded. Sharing a private export is your own sharing decision.
Signed-in users can fork public timelines into independently owned copies. Private
forking requires the owner's authorization; those platform copies remain private.
Forks retain their own collaborators and survive upstream deletion. Saving records
immutable checkpoints; submitted reviews pin a saved snapshot rather than following
later edits automatically. A fork does not transfer ownership of the original or
grant unlimited reuse rights beyond these service features and a stated content license.
The owner controls visibility, membership, and timeline deletion. A viewer can
read; a contributor can propose changes; a writer can update the upstream version,
merge recommendations, and close or reject them. Signed-in readers of public
timelines can propose changes. Recommendations retain proposed and base snapshots
and discussion until the timeline is deleted. Submitting a recommendation grants
the owner permission to incorporate and share the proposed changes under the
timeline's stated content license, if any; do not submit material with incompatible
rights. Contributors retain their copyright. Permission to collaborate is not
permission to impersonate the owner or change ownership.
## Plugins, scripts, and the library
Official OpenChronology plugins are part of the GPLv3 software. Original custom
scripts remain their author's property, subject to any applicable derivative-work
requirements and licenses on incorporated code. Installing a plugin stores its
definition in the timeline; exporting a timeline includes that definition.
Removing a library listing cannot retract installed or exported copies.
Publishing to the plugin library grants service users permission to download,
install, execute, and include that version in timelines and their exports. Include
your own license notice for additional modification or redistribution rights.
This functional permission does not waive other copyright rights. Do not publish
code you lack permission to distribute. Library availability or an official-looking
name is not an endorsement; official plugins are identified separately. Restricted
execution reduces available capabilities but cannot guarantee defect-free output.
## Acceptable use and moderation
The service is for knowledge: history, science, education, journalism, art and
records. Educational, historical, medical, artistic and news depictions of nudity,
violence and disturbing events are allowed, but must be labelled as sensitive content
(nudity, graphic violence, disturbing content) on the timeline, moment or duration
that contains them. Readers are then warned before it opens and its images are
blurred until they choose to see them. Not allowed at all: pornography or other
sexually explicit material made to arouse; gore or cruelty shown for its own sake;
and any sexual content involving minors, which is removed, preserved as the law
requires and reported to the authorities.
Do not use hosted services for illegal content, infringement, harassment, threats,
fraud, doxxing, malware, attempts to escape script restrictions, access-control
bypass, credential theft, or deliberate disruption. Respect technical rate and
size limits. Report suspected security defects privately using the published
contact; do not access other users' data or disrupt the service while investigating.
## How content is moderated
Anyone, with or without an account, can report a timeline, moment, duration,
comment, published plugin or suite, or account they can see, choosing what is wrong
(child sexual abuse or exploitation, other illegal content, sexually explicit content,
graphic violence, promoting suicide or self-harm, harassment or private information,
spam, copyright infringement, or something else). The owner is not told who reported.
Reports of child abuse and other illegal content are reviewed first.
People, not automated systems, review reports and decide. The operator and the site's
administrators may:
- dismiss a report;
- add a sensitive-content label, which the owner cannot remove;
- restrict content, so only its owner (and administrators) can see it;
- suspend an account;
for violations of these terms, security incidents, or legal obligations. Apparent child
sexual abuse material is restricted at once, preserved as the law requires and reported
to the authorities (in the US, to NCMEC). Immediate action may be necessary; unlawful
or harmful material need not remain available. Where practicable, the operator will
provide an opportunity to export lawful data. This discretion does not transfer
ownership of user data. Copyright complaints and repeat infringement are handled under
COPYRIGHT.md.
The service uses no automated content detection. Two automatic measures shape what
appears, not whether it is allowed: browsing ranks public timelines with an account
standing (from account age, email confirmation, two-factor authentication, stars and
forks received, and moderation decisions), leaving out new accounts' timelines until
they are established; and signing up, sending email, reporting, publishing plugins,
repeated failed sign-ins and new accounts' contributions to others' timelines may ask
for a human-verification challenge. Search ranks by relevance to what
you typed.
## Complaints
- **About content:** use **Report** on it.
- **About a decision on your content or account:** you are told what was decided and
why, by notice in your account and by email, and can ask once from Account for it
to be reviewed by someone. A suspended account asks by contacting the operator.
Signed-in reporters with a confirmed email are told the outcome of their report.
- **About anything else:** contact the operator, for example about how a report was
handled, about the service not meeting these terms or its legal duties, or about
being wrongly treated as under 18.
Complaints are answered as soon as practicable and are not used against the person
who makes them. Where you live may also give you the right to complain to a regulator
or a court, or (in the EU) to an out-of-court dispute settlement body.
## Availability, departure, and liability
Keep independent exports. Local edits do not publish automatically: saving to the
server changes the timeline or proposal you explicitly select. The service may
change or be interrupted and does not promise perpetual hosting, particular
storage capacity, recovery of every version, or a service-level guarantee.
You can delete, through the interface, the timelines you own, your comments, and
your account (Account → Delete your account), which deletes what it owns and wrote,
as PRIVACY.md describes. Other data requests go to the operator; see PRIVACY.md.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, the service is provided as available,
without promises of uninterrupted availability or fitness for a particular purpose.
The operator is not liable for indirect or consequential losses to that extent.
These terms do not exclude liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including
mandatory consumer rights, nor limit remedies for intentional wrongdoing where
prohibited. The software's separate warranty terms are in the GPLv3 license.
## Software rights, identity, and changes
OpenChronology software is copyright 2026 Athan Clark and licensed GPL-3.0-only.
These hosted-service terms do not restrict copying, modification, redistribution,
self-hosting, or commercial use permitted by that license. Names and domain rights
are distinct; forks may accurately acknowledge their origin but must not suggest
they are the official timescale.info service without authorization.
No nonprofit currently operates the service. A future operator or copyright
assignment will be disclosed; it is not assumed by these terms. Material service
policy changes will receive prospective notice before taking effect, except when
immediate changes are necessary for law or security. Archived policy versions
should remain available. No arbitration clause or exclusive forum is imposed by
this draft; governing-law details await operator confirmation, and mandatory rights
under applicable law remain available.
Privacy notice (draft)
# timescale.info — privacy notice
Draft version: 2026-10-15. Not yet effective. Responsible operator: Athan Clark,
an individual. Public privacy contact, hosting providers, hosting region, and
backup/log retention schedules are pending confirmation; see LAUNCH.md.
## Information and purposes
The hosted service stores account usernames and identifiers, salted password
hashes when password login is used, verified email addresses, encrypted authenticator
secrets, hashed single-use recovery codes, confirmation/reset proofs, encrypted
transactional email jobs, linked identity-provider names and subject
identifiers, session records, and authorization-flow records. Password hashes are
not plaintext passwords. Google, GitHub, or Facebook sign-in contacts the provider
you choose; the provider can observe that authentication. The application uses
provider credentials server-side and does not give provider tokens to timeline
plugins. Provider privacy notices also apply to their own services.
Resend processes recipient addresses and account verification, recovery, and security
notification email content for delivery. The server checks new passwords against
Have I Been Pwned using only a five-character hash prefix and padded responses;
it never sends a plaintext password or complete password hash to that service.
These services can observe the sending server's network address. Confirmation
proofs expire in 24 hours, reset proofs in 30 minutes, and pending MFA challenges
in five minutes. Temporary records are cleaned by the delivery worker. Authenticator
secrets and recovery-code hashes remain until replaced, disabled, or account removal.
The database stores the timelines you explicitly save: exact rational times,
titles, notes, tags, metadata, formatting scripts, plugin definitions, and links
to images (not copies of them). It also stores visibility, collaborator permissions, saved revision documents,
fork relationships and ancestry, proposed
and base snapshots, and discussion comments with account attribution. These support
editing, search, sharing, collaboration, and export. Private timelines are excluded
from the public browser and public full-text search. Site administrators can
access and manage private timelines; they are not encrypted from the operator.
Account profiles may contain an avatar image or HTTPS image URL. Remote avatar
hosts receive browser requests. Scoped API credentials are stored as hashes with
names, prefixes, permissions, expiry, revocation, and last-used timestamps. The
service also records per-user logical storage usage, quota exemptions, suspension
status, administrator privileges, and an audit trail of administration actions.
Secrets, passwords, and MFA codes are excluded from that audit trail.
Sign-up asks for your year of birth, to confirm you are old enough for an account and to
keep warnings before sensitive content on for accounts of people who may be under 18;
only the year is stored, with your choice of whether to see sensitive content without
warnings. A sign-up refused for its age is answered neutrally, and a hash of that
browser's sign-in token is kept for one day so that another answer from it is refused
too; nothing else about the refused sign-up is kept. The service computes an account standing (from account age, confirmation,
two-factor authentication, stars and forks received, and moderation decisions) to rank
public timelines; only administrators see it. Reports record what was reported, the
category and any details you give, and your account if you were signed in; the owner of
what you report is not told who reported it. Moderation decisions keep their reason,
who decided, any review request and its outcome, as a record. Reports and decisions are
kept while needed to moderate and as required by law.
IP addresses are processed for connection handling and abuse prevention; temporary
authentication rate-limit keys are hashed. Hosting providers and reverse proxies
may generate request and security logs. The deployment must document their actual
fields, recipients, and retention before this notice becomes effective. Support,
privacy, and abuse reports may contain the information you provide and are used
to respond and investigate. If the operator turns on Cloudflare Turnstile for
human-verification challenges (instead of the built-in proof of work), your browser
loads Cloudflare's challenge when one is asked for, and Cloudflare receives network
and device information to tell people from automated traffic, under its own privacy
policy. The application includes no advertising or analytics
integration; a deployment adding either must update this notice and meet applicable
consent requirements before doing so.
## Local storage, cookies, and offline editions
Browser session cookies authenticate requests; anti-forgery and short-lived
authorization-flow values secure login. Server sessions have a 14-day absolute
expiry and become invalid after one day of inactivity. Users can revoke sessions.
The browser keeps editing drafts and authentication-return state in local storage
facilities. Clearing site storage removes local drafts and can sign you out.
The application does not include advertising cookies or cross-site tracking code.
If the operator enables Google Analytics, the site first asks whether you allow
analytics cookies. Only if you accept does your browser load Google's script, which
sets Google Analytics cookies and sends Google the pages you visit, with network and
device information. Google signals and ad personalization are turned off, and
timeline content is never sent. Your choice is kept in your browser; "Analytics
settings" in the footer changes it.
The standalone HTML edition processes timelines on your device and blocks network
connections. It includes embedded assets and legal notices. It cannot use the
online catalogue or missing external images. The desktop edition stores local
.och SQLite files and can connect to the server you select; connecting and saving
to a server share data with that operator. A local file is not automatically
uploaded. Exported .och and .ochx files are not encrypted by the application and
include timeline scripts and embedded assets. Access and account credentials are
not exported as timeline settings. Your browser, operating system, backups, and
chosen storage locations have their own data practices.
## Who can receive data
Public timeline content and its discussions are available to anyone and can be
downloaded and indexed outside the service. Private content is available to the
people the owner authorizes. Operators and necessary hosting/database providers
can access stored data for service operation; this is not end-to-end encryption.
The operator does not receive ownership of that content. Provider services process
authentication requests when selected. Information may be disclosed when required
by law or necessary to respond to security abuse or protect legal rights, subject
to applicable law and appropriate limits.
Moment image URLs can request images from third-party HTTPS hosts in connected
editions. Those hosts see network information, including an IP address and requested
URL; image requests omit browser credentials and referrers. Opening an original
image source visits that site under its own policies. The server stores image links,
not copies; exports to your own files may embed a browser-created image copy if the
host allows it. Plugin scripts run
through a restricted interpreter without direct network, DOM, or import access;
host-rendered image fields can still cause these image requests. Published plugin
definitions are public independently of private timelines using them.
## Retention and choices
Saved timelines remain until the owner deletes them or operator-assisted removal
is required. Deleting a timeline removes its live events, recommendations, and
comments through database cascades, together with unreferenced history belonging
to that timeline. Independently owned forks and submitted snapshots on other
timelines remain; ancestry needed by those forks and reviews is retained. A public
review exposes its submitted snapshot, not the source fork's other private history.
Revoking upstream access stops future reads and synchronization but does not erase
copies already made. Do not assume closing a recommendation deletes its snapshots or
comments.
You can delete your own comments at any time, from the pull request they are on. You can
delete your account from Account → Delete your account, confirming with your username,
your password and, if two-factor authentication is on, a code. Deleting it deletes at once
the timelines you own (as deleting each would), the pull requests and comments you wrote
on other timelines, your published plugins and suites, stars, memberships, API keys,
sign-in methods, sessions and security records. Kept: changes already merged into other
people's timelines, which are part of their history (it names an account that no longer
exists), others' forks of your timelines, and moderation records, which no longer name
you. The last administrator of an installation cannot delete their account. Other
requests, such as about content of yours elsewhere, go to the privacy contact. Expired login flows and sessions are cleaned by authentication
operations, rather than guaranteed immediate physical erasure at expiry.
Backup deletion and log retention depend on the deployment and must be specified
before public launch. Necessary legal holds may delay deletion with limited access.
Recipient copies, search engines, and files you export are outside the operator's
control. Export your timelines before deletion; keep local backups if needed.
Depending on applicable law, you may request access, correction, deletion,
restriction, portability, or object to processing and complain to a competent
privacy regulator. The operator will verify requests without requiring unnecessary
information and respond within applicable deadlines. Service delivery, security,
and legal obligations are the purposes; where GDPR applies, the intended bases are
contract necessity, legitimate interests in secure operation subject to balancing,
and legal obligations, with consent for optional processing where required. Hosting
locations, international-transfer mechanisms, and any required representatives must
be confirmed before offering the service in jurisdictions requiring them.
Accounts are for people aged 13 or older; the service does not knowingly offer
accounts to children under 13. A sign-up giving a year of birth under 13 is refused,
and an account created through a social sign-in that does so is closed before it can be
used. Report suspected accounts of children under 13 to the operator so they can be
investigated and addressed under applicable law.
Accounts of people who may be under 18 get high-privacy settings by default that they
cannot change: warnings before sensitive content always show, the timelines they star
are not shown on their profile, and browsing leaves out labelled timelines. For everyone,
timelines start private, profiles show only a username and an optional avatar, and the
service collects no location, has no private messaging, and does no profiling for
advertising. The year of birth is used only for these settings and the age requirement.
This is not a claim that an age question alone satisfies children's privacy or
online-safety laws.
Material privacy changes must describe the new practices before they take effect;
existing data must not be repurposed incompatibly without the necessary legal basis.
Copyright, abuse, and security reports (draft)
# Copyright, abuse, and security reporting
Draft version: 2026-10-15. Operator: Athan Clark, an individual.
Public reporting email and, if used, designated-agent details are pending.
This draft does not assert that a DMCA agent has been registered or that a safe
harbor automatically applies.
Anyone can report a timeline, moment, duration, comment, published plugin or suite, or
account with **Report**, choosing "Copyright infringement" and describing the work and
why its use is unauthorized; no account is needed. A formal notice, such as a US DMCA
notice, goes to the operator contact once it is published, as described below.
Images on timelines are links to where their owners host them, not copies stored by
the service (docs/images.md). A complaint about a linked image can ask for the link to
be removed from the timeline; removing the image itself is a matter for its host.
For a copyright complaint, identify the copyrighted work, the specific timeline,
plugin, comment, image, or URL at issue, your contact information, and why the use
is unauthorized. For a US DMCA notice, also include an electronic or physical
signature, a good-faith statement that the use is not authorized by the owner,
agent, or law, and a statement of accuracy and authority under penalty of perjury.
Do not include private account credentials. If you are uncertain whether the use
is permitted, including by license or fair use, assess that before sending a claim.
The operator should review complete reports promptly, restrict identified material
when appropriate, and notify the affected user unless prohibited or unsafe.
Report details may be shared with that user to allow a response; sensitive contact
information should be limited to what the process requires. In-app reports are
handled in the review queue (docs/moderation.md): restricted material becomes visible
only to its owner, who is told why and can ask for a review. Repeat infringers' hosted
accounts are suspended in appropriate circumstances: before deciding, the operator
reviews the account's earlier restrictions for copyright, which the moderation records
keep (`oc_moderation_cases`, `oc_reports`).
Preserve a limited record of decisions and respect lawful preservation requirements.
If US DMCA procedures apply, an affected user may provide a counter-notice with a
signature, identification of the removed material and its former location, a
statement under penalty of perjury of a good-faith belief that removal resulted
from mistake or misidentification, their name/address/telephone number, consent
to the relevant US federal court's jurisdiction, and acceptance of service from
the complainant or agent. The operator must follow applicable notification and
restoration procedures; restoration generally follows the statutory 10–14 business
day period after a valid counter-notice unless notice of a qualifying court action
is received. This procedure must be finalized with the actual designated agent.
For other abuse, provide specific URLs and a factual description of the concern.
For vulnerabilities, report privately with reproducible steps and minimal evidence.
Do not publish secrets, exploit unrelated accounts, or interrupt the service.
There is no promised bug bounty or blanket authorization for intrusive testing.
Software licensing complaints should identify the distributed version and the
missing license, source, or attribution. GPL rights remain available independently
of any account moderation decision.
Reference: https://www.copyright.gov/512/index.html and
https://copyright.gov/dmca-directory/ describe US procedures and agent designation.
Operator details pending before launch
# Operator publication checklist
These policies are reviewable drafts, not assertions that timescale.info is
already operating or that legal registrations have been completed. They intentionally
avoid invented contact addresses, corporate status, hosting vendors, and jurisdiction.
Copyright and GPL software licensing take effect independently of this draft status.
Before making the hosted policies effective:
- Supply Athan Clark's monitored support/privacy/abuse/security contact and required
operator/business mailing information. A service address can avoid publishing a
residential address where permitted. Confirm governing jurisdiction and applicable
consumer/privacy rules; get legal review appropriate to the intended user regions.
- Replace draft labels with an effective date and archive prior policy versions.
Establish a notice/acceptance process for account creation, including social login;
the current interface presents policies but does not record contractual acceptance.
- Configure Resend with a verified sending domain, scoped API key, SPF/DKIM and
appropriate DMARC. Back up the authentication encryption key separately, run
the delivery worker, and test confirmation, recovery, and MFA end to end.
- Confirm hosting/database/backup/email/log providers, locations, access controls,
log fields and concrete retention/removal schedules. Document processors,
international transfers, and representatives where required. Ensure contracts and
actual configuration match the public privacy notice.
- Establish identity verification, export, correction, complaint, appeal,
breach-response, and legal-hold procedures. Deleting timelines, one's own comments and
one's own account is self-service (PRIVACY.md); a copy of all of an account's data at
once is not (each timeline exports separately), so access and portability requests
need operator work. Do not promise self-service functions that do not exist.
- Decide whether to use a US DMCA designated agent. If so, register and publish
matching required contact details, track renewal deadlines, and establish the
notice/counter-notice and repeat-infringer process before relying on safe harbor.
Registration alone does not satisfy every condition.
- Confirm the 13+ account policy, handling of suspected accounts of children under 13,
and regional age requirements. Sign-up asks for a year of birth (self-declared): it
is not age verification or parental consent, and accounts that may be under 18 always
see sensitive-content warnings. Review this against the regions served (for example
higher digital-consent ages under the GDPR in some EU countries).
- US COPPA (the amended rule, in force since 22 April 2026): the service is for a
general audience and refuses accounts under 13 through a neutral age screen (no hint
of the age needed; a refused browser is refused again for a day). If the operator
learns an account belongs to a child under 13, close it and delete its data. Keep a
written information security program and a data retention policy anyway; the rule
requires both of services it covers, and they are good practice for any.
- UK Age Appropriate Design Code (Children's Code): write a data protection impact
assessment covering under-18 users, and keep the high-privacy defaults for accounts
that may be under 18 (TERMS.md, Young people). Review it with RISK-ASSESSMENT.md.
- US state laws on minors and social media: about twenty states have them, many
enjoined or in litigation, and their definitions of a social media platform vary.
Check, for the states served, whether the service meets their definitions (most
exclude services whose main purpose is not social interaction, or that are
educational): for example Texas's SCOPE Act (HB 18), New York's SAFE for Kids Act
(its rules on feeds for minors take effect 25 January 2027), and Utah, Louisiana,
Texas and Alabama's app store accountability laws if the desktop app is distributed
through an app store.
- Australia's social media minimum age (under 16, since 10 December 2025): the service
is likely outside it (its purpose is not social interaction, and educational services
are excluded), but record the reasoning before offering accounts there.
- Content policy (TERMS.md): no pornography or gratuitous gore; educational depictions
allowed when labelled. Keep it that way to stay outside age-verification laws for
pornography (US state laws, the UK Online Safety Act's pornography duties) and
18 U.S.C. 2257 record-keeping; allowing explicit material would require them.
- Register as an electronic service provider with NCMEC's CyberTipline before launch, so
apparent child sexual abuse material can be reported as 18 U.S.C. 2258A requires, and
follow the procedure in docs/moderation.md (restrict, preserve for one year, report;
never copy or forward the material). Name who reviews the report queue and how often;
reports of child abuse and other illegal content are listed first.
- UK Online Safety Act: complete and keep current the illegal-content risk assessment and
the children's access and risk assessments (template: RISK-ASSESSMENT.md), and keep
reporting and complaints working (Report, the review queue, review requests). The terms
describe how users and children are protected, how moderation decides, and the
complaints procedure (TERMS.md: Young people; How content is moderated; Complaints).
- EU Digital Services Act: publish a single point of contact for authorities and users,
keep notice-and-action (Report) and statements of reasons (the owner's notice and
email) working, and publish the moderation policy (TERMS.md acceptable use).
- Publish matching Corresponding Source alongside browser/desktop/container releases
and preserve dependency copyright/license notices. See docs/licensing.md.
- Check domain ownership and name conflicts; no registered trademark is asserted.
A future nonprofit requires real formation and any intended copyright assignments,
operator disclosure, and data-transfer review. This repository does not assign
rights automatically to an entity that does not yet exist.
Primary references used for this draft:
- GNU GPLv3 and application guidance: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
and https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html
- FTC privacy guidance: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/privacy-security/consumer-privacy
- FTC children's privacy guidance (including current COPPA changes):
https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/complying-coppa-frequently-asked-questions
- US Copyright Office notice-and-takedown resources:
https://www.copyright.gov/512/index.html and https://copyright.gov/dmca-directory/
These sources explain specific obligations; they do not establish that any one
deployment satisfies every law. Have the finished policies reviewed after the
operator, deployment, and intended markets are confirmed.
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Third-party notices
# Third-party components
- **rational-map / rational-ordered-map 0.1.0**, MIT. The vendored npm archive includes its license; source and commit are recorded in `vendor/versions.json`. It uses **fraction.js 5.3.4**, MIT. Installed package licenses are under `node_modules/`.
- **sqlite-rational 0.1.0**, MIT. Source and license are in `vendor/sqlite-rational/`; source commit is recorded in `vendor/versions.json`.
- **pgmp 1.0.6**, LGPL 3 (see upstream COPYING and source headers). The deployment image builds the exact public source commit `1849585416f2bc3d070bf8cef6a659907687ec7f`; upstream license: https://github.com/dvarrazzo/pgmp/blob/1849585416f2bc3d070bf8cef6a659907687ec7f/COPYING.
- **GNU MP (GMP)**, LGPL 3 or later / GPL 2 or later. Desktop and PostgreSQL modules dynamically link system GMP; no GMP source or static GMP copy is bundled here. See `vendor/sqlite-rational/THIRD_PARTY.md` and your system package's notices/source provisions.
- **SQLite**, public domain; linked from the system package in desktop and server-converter builds.
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