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title: Package Inclusion Policy and Guidance
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<b>Note:</b> This is a draft
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## 0. Overview
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ContentDB is for the community, and as such listings should be useful to the
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community. To help with this, there are a few rules to improve the quality of
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the listings and to combat abuse.
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* No inappropriate content. <sup>2.1</sup>
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* Content must be playable/useful, but not necessarily finished. <sup>2.2</sup>
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* Don't use the name of another mod unless your mod is a fork or reimplementation. <sup>3</sup>
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* Licenses must allow derivatives, redistribution, and must not discriminate. <sup>4</sup>
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* Don't put promotions or advertisements in package listings, except for
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donation and personal website links which are permitted in the
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long description. <sup>5</sup>
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* The ContentDB admin reserves the right to remove packages for any reason,
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including ones not covered by this document, and to ban users who abuse
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this service. <sup>1</sup>
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## 1. General
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The ContentDB admin reserves the right to remove packages for any reason,
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including ones not covered by this document, and to ban users who abuse this service.
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Also see the [help page on tags](/help/package_tags/).
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## 2. Accepted Content
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### 2.1. Acceptable Content
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Sexually-orientated content is not permitted.
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Mature content, including that relating to drugs, excessive gore, violence, or
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horror, is not currently permitted - but will be in the future.
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The submission of malware is strictly prohibited. This includes software which
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does not do as it advertises, for example if it posts telemetry without stating
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clearly that it does in the package meta.
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### 2.2. State of Completion
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ContentDB should only currently contain playable content - content which is
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sufficiently complete to be useful to end users. It's fine to add stuff which
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is still a work in progress (WIP) as long as it adds sufficient value -
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MineClone 2 is a good example of a WIP package which may break between releases
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but still has value. Note that this doesn't mean that you should add a thing
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you started working on yesterday, it's worth adding all the basic stuff to
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make your package useful.
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Adding non-player facing mods, such as libraries and server tools, is perfectly fine
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and encouraged. ContentDB isn't just for player-facing things, and adding
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libraries allows them to be installed when a mod depends on it.
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## 3. Technical Names
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### 3.1 Right to a name
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The first package to use a name based on the creation of its forum topic or
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contentdb submission has the right to the technical name. The use of a package
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on a server or in private doesn't reserve its name. No other packages of the same
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type may use the same name, except for the exception given by 3.2.
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If it turns out that we made a mistake by approving a package and that the
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name should have been given to another package, then we *may* unapprove the
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package and give the name to the correct one.
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If you submit a package where you don't have the right to the name you will be asked
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to change the name of the package, or your package won't be accepted.
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We reserve the right to issue exceptions for this where we feel necessary.
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### 3.2 Mod Forks and Reimplementations
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An exception to the above is that mods are allowed to have the same name as a
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mod if its a fork of that mod (or a close reimplementation). In real terms, it
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should be possible to use the new mod as a drop-in replacement.
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We reserve the right to decide whether a mod counts as a fork or
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reimplementation of the mod that owns the name.
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## 4. Licenses
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### 4.1 Allowed Licenses
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Please ensure that you correctly credit any resources (code, assets, or otherwise)
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that you have used in your package.
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**The use of licenses which do not allow derivatives or redistribution is not
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permitted. This includes CC-ND (No-Derivatives) and lots of closed source licenses.
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The use of licenses which discriminate between groups of people or forbid the use
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of the content on servers or singleplayer is also not permitted.**
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However, closed sourced licenses are allowed if they allow the above.
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If the license you use is not on the list then please select "Other", and we'll
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get around to adding it.
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Please note that the definitions of "free" and "non-free" is the same as that
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of the [Free Software Foundation](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html).
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### 4.2 Recommended Licenses
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It is highly recommended that you use a free and open source software license.
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FOSS licenses result in a sharing community and will increase the number of potential users your package has.
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Using a closed source license will result in your package being massively penalised in the search results and package lists.
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It is recommended that you use a proper license for code with a warranty
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disclaimer, such as the (L)GPL or MIT. You should also use a proper media license
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for media, such as a Creative Commons license.
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The use of WTFPL is discouraged as it doesn't contain a [valid warranty disclaimer](https://cubicspot.blogspot.com/2017/04/wtfpl-is-harmful-to-software-developers.html),
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and also includes swearing which prevents settings like schools from using your content.
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[Read more](/help/wtfpl/).
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Public domain is not a valid license in many countries, please use CC0 or MIT instead.
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## 5. Promotions and Advertisements (inc. asking for donations)
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You may note place any promotions or advertisements in any meta data including
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screensthos. This includes asking for donations, promoting online shops,
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or linking to personal websites and social media. Please instead use the
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fields provided on your user profile page to place links to websites and
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donation pages.
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ContentDB is for the community. We may remove any promotions if we feel that
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they're inappropriate.
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## 6. Reporting Violations
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See the [Reporting Content](/help/reporting/) page.
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