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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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## 1. General
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It is not permitted to submit abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful,
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threatening, sexually-orientated or any material that may violate any laws be
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it of your country, the country where "Content DB” is hosted or International Law.
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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 and State of Completion
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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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ContentDB should only currently contain playable content, ie: stuff that would
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be in Mod Releases and Game Releases. Please don't upload any Work In Progress (WIP)
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things. This will probably change in future if/when an "early access" feature is
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added.
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Adding non-player facing mods, such as libraries and server tools, is perfectly fine.
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ContentDB isn't just for player-facing things, and adding libraries allows them to be
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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 2.2.
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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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### 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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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 choose the correct "Other"
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option.
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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 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,
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and also includes swearing which dissuades teachers from using your content.
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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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Any information other than the long description - including screenshots - must
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not contain any promotions or advertisements. This includes asking for donations,
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promoting online shops, or linking to personal websites and social media.
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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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Paid promotions are not allowed at all, anywhere.
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## 6. Reporting Violations
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See the [Reporting Content](/help/reporting/) page.
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