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Acceptable use policy

This is example content for a demonstration site, showing the shape of a usage policy in this system.

1. Scope

This page would govern use of a hosted service. Teasim publishes packages rather than running a service, so nothing here restricts anything today. It exists to demonstrate the policy template.

2. The software

Use of the packages is governed by their MIT licence, which permits commercial use, modification, distribution and private use, and which asks only that the copyright notice travel with the code.

3. What a policy of this kind usually covers

A real acceptable use policy names the conduct a service will not host: attempting to breach its security, interfering with other users, automated access that degrades it for everyone, and distributing content the operator is required to remove.

4. Reporting

A hosted service names a route for reporting abuse and commits to a response window. See the DMCA policy for the takedown-specific version of the same shape.

5. Enforcement

A real policy states what happens when it is breached, and in what order — notice, suspension, termination — so the consequences are predictable rather than discretionary.