# RULES OF THIS SOFTWARE **Ta-Na-Si MDR — Media & Document Repository** Rules version **0.1** — DRAFT. The payment model in section 2 is still open, and this text has not yet been reviewed by a lawyer. It is published here so that nobody can say it was hidden. These rules come with the software. You agreed to them when you installed this archive, and the archive recorded that you did: who, when, and which version of this text. --- ## 1. Where these rules come from This software was not made to be owned. It was made to be used — by anyone keeping an archive, from a family's shelf of letters to the records of a whole region. It rests on the Guidment of Respect, reproduced in full inside every installation and in this package. Those sentences are not permissions granted by anyone. They are statements about what is, and they hold whether or not a state agrees with them: > Birth is the guaranteed right of existence. > Every single adult (18 years) is responsible for his acting without social damage. > Right of happiness and wellbeing. > Right of freedom of religion. > Right of freedom of speech. > Right of education. > Saving data against untrustworthy use. > > — from *"For guidment to respect"* The rules below are not added on top of those sentences. They follow from them. --- ## 2. What you receive — and what it costs You may install this software, run it, and keep an archive with it: for yourself, for a family, for a village, for a region. You may change the code. It is your machine and your house. Nothing in these rules asks you to leave the software as you found it. **Free to read is not the same as free to run.** What an archive holds is meant to be read freely — that is the entire point of it, and nothing here restricts a single reader. The software that carries it is a different matter. It was built by people, over months, and the work does not stop when you install it: it has to be maintained, and the people doing that have to live. So the software is not a gift. It is offered, and something flows back for it. > **[OPEN — to be filled in before this text takes effect]** > The form of that return is not yet decided. It will be stated here, plainly and in full, > before anyone is asked to agree to it. Whatever it turns out to be, these two things hold: > the READING of an archive is never charged for, and nothing in the payment model may be used > to reach into an archive that already exists. --- ## 3. What is yours Everything about YOUR archive is yours, and we will never reach into it: - the name of your archive, its logo, its colours, its wording; - everything you collect, publish, or withhold; - the people who are members of it, and their data; - your imprint, your privacy statement, your own agreement with your members — you write those, and you answer for them. We do not see any of it. We hold no key to your installation. --- ## 4. What is not yours Three things travel with the software and stay as they are, in every installation: **4.1 The name of the software.** Every installation says, once, in its footer and in the mails it sends, that it runs on Ta-Na-Si MDR, and links to where the software comes from. The wording around that name may be translated. The name itself is not translated, not shortened, not removed. **4.2 The ground texts.** *"The Purpose and Guidment to Respect"*, *"For guidment to respect"*, *"The systemic and organic conversation"* and *"Das Anliegen"* are reproduced word for word, in their original language, in every installation and in every translation. They are not edited, not shortened, not improved, and not translated. They are the ground this stands on. **4.3 The project behind the software.** The About page names Raven D. Pond and Keylam Folker as the authors of the project — and says plainly that they do NOT run your installation. You do. That sentence protects you as much as it protects them. --- ## 5. The one thing you must not do **Do not say this software is yours when it is not, and do not say it is someone else's.** This is not a claim about property. It is a claim about truth. An archive exists to help people understand what is, on the strength of facts. An archive that lies about its own origin has broken the very thing it was built to do — and the person it deceives is not us. It is the visitor who trusts it. That is social damage, and the second Guidment names it. So: removing the attribution, replacing it with another name, or presenting this software as your own creation is not a technicality. It is a deception, and the rules end there. --- ## 6. What you owe the people in your archive The seventh Guidment — *"saving data against untrustworthy use"* — is not addressed to us. It is addressed to you, because you are the one holding their data. Whoever entrusts you with their name, their address, their date of birth, has done so to be part of an archive, and for nothing else. Do not sell it. Do not hand it on. Do not use it for a purpose they did not agree to. The software gives you the means to keep this promise — keeping it is yours. --- ## 7. What we will never do These rules bind us too, and the software is built so that we cannot break them even if we wanted to: - The integrity check runs on YOUR machine and reports to YOU. It sends nothing to us. There is no call home, and there is nothing to switch off. - We have no access to your installation, your database, your members, or your files. - **Your public archive is never restricted — not even when the rules are broken.** People reading in your archive have no part in a dispute between you and us. Only the administration of a violating installation closes, and only after 30 days. - The emergency door to your own installation always stays open to you. We do not lock anyone out of their own house. - We do not touch your content. Not ever. --- ## 8. How a breach is recognised The software checks itself. It compares a small number of protected files against the fingerprints it was shipped with, and it does this on your machine, for your eyes. A breach is a **fact**, not an opinion: a protected file is missing, or it has been changed. The answer is yes or no. Nobody has to judge your intentions, and nobody does. If it finds one, it tells you at once — quietly, with a marker in the status bar. After seven days it says so plainly, every time you sign in. After thirty days the administration of the archive closes until the files are as they were. The public archive stays open the whole time, and so does your emergency access. Every step is written into your own audit log: what was found, when, and when it was repaired. That record is yours. It is also the record that would matter, if it ever came to that. --- ## 9. What happens after that Nothing else happens automatically. There is no further switch, no remote lever, no kill command — and there never will be, because we could not build one without breaking section 7. What remains is what has always remained between people: a record of what was agreed, and a record of what was done. If it goes further, it goes further between people, not between machines. --- ## 10. Your consent You agreed to these rules when you installed this archive. The installation recorded the account, the date, and the version of this text. Without that consent there is no installation — it is the first step of the setup, before anything else is written. **A later version does not reach back into your running archive.** What you agreed to is what holds, for as long as you keep the software you have. Nobody rewrites a promise after it has been made. **But the rules travel with the code.** When you update the software and the rules have changed, you are shown what changed and asked to agree again, before the update completes. If you do not agree, you do not update — and you keep what you have, both the software and the rules that came with it. Take both, or keep both. There is no version of this where you get the new software under the old terms, and none where the old terms are quietly swapped underneath you. --- ## 11. If a part of this is unenforceable where you live Then that part is unenforceable, and the rest still stands — and so does the reason for it. These rules were not written to win an argument in a courtroom. They were written so that anyone reading them knows exactly what was asked of them, and can say honestly whether they did it. --- **Ta-Na-Si** — Raven D. Pond and Keylam Folker