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# Code of Merit # Community guidelines
1. The project creators, lead developers, core team, constitute Be fair, and cooperate. This is a open source project where anyone with an interest in MS-DOS, emulation, and/or DOSBox-X is welcome to talk, chat, develop, and contribute to the project.
the managing members of the project and have final say in every decision
of the project, technical or otherwise, including overruling previous decisions.
There are no limitations to this decisional power.
2. Contributions are an expected result of your membership on the project. Leave your politics at the door. The focus of this project is DOSBox-X and topics related to it including emulation, games, software, hardware, accuracy, code, development, and documentation. Anything else is off-topic and will be treated as such.
Don't expect others to do your work or help you with your work forever.
3. All members have the same opportunities to seek any challenge they want I (Jonathan Campbell) will block users from this project that are hostile to this project, it's developers, and/or users with an explicit explanation as to why. That includes threats, slander, gossip, doxxing, and spreading misinformation about myself and/or other users of this project, whether here or anywhere else, on the internet or in real life.
within the project.
4. Authority or position in the project will be proportional Humor and jokes are welcome as long as they are on-topic. This is a fun hobby project where enthusiasts can get together to hack, modify, explore and share a common interest in this project and the aforementioned topics listed above.
to the accrued contribution. Seniority must be earned.
5. Software is evolutive: the better implementations must supersede lesser I (Jonathan Campbell), as the owner of this project, reserve the right to block users from this project that violate this Code of Conduct or otherwise disrupt this project according to my judgement. Other users whom I have given access to do so, may block users from this project that explicitly violate this Code of Conduct.
implementations. Technical advantage is the primary evaluation metric.
6. This is a space for technical prowess; topics outside of the project This Code of Conduct is applicable to the DOSBox-X project at https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x. Forks and projects derived from https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x may have their own Code of Conduct independent of the main DOSBox-X project, to be upheld and maintained by the owner of that repository only within the domain of that repository. The fork or derived project is free to allow or block users according to the whims and policy of the repository owner, independent of the main DOSBox-X project.
will not be tolerated.
7. Non technical conflicts will be discussed in a separate space. Disruption Participation in this project is always voluntary. There is no requirement or obligation to work on this project continuously or in a consistent manner, or at all.
of the project will not be allowed.
8. Individual characteristics, including but not limited to, Definition of terms:
body, sex, sexual preference, race, language, religion, nationality, * [Anyone, any person at all](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anyone)
or political preferences are irrelevant in the scope of the project and * [Person, human, individual](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/person)
will not be taken into account concerning your value or that of your contribution * [Interest, a quality in a thing arousing interest](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/interest)
to the project. * [Focus, directed attention](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/focus)
* [Hostile, marked by malevolence, of an enemy, openly opposed, not hospitable](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hostile)
9. Discuss or debate the idea, not the person. * [Threats, an expression of intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/threats)
* [Slander, to utter slander against, defame](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slander)
10. There is no room for ambiguity: Ambiguity will be met with questioning; * [Defame, to harm the reputation of by communicating false statements about : to harm the reputation of by libel](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/defame)
further ambiguity will be met with silence. It is the responsibility * [Gossip, rumor or report of an intimate nature](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gossip)
of the originator to provide requested context. * [Dox, to publicly identify or publish private information about (someone) especially as a form of punishment or revenge](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dox)
* [Enthusiast, one who tends to become ardently absorbed in an interest](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enthusiast)
11. If something is illegal outside the scope of the project, it is illegal * [Joke, something said or done to provoke laughter; especially : a brief oral narrative with a climactic humorous twist, something not to be taken seriously : a trifling matter](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/joke)
in the scope of the project. This Code of Merit does not take precedence over * [Humor, something that is or is designed to be comical or amusing](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/humor)
governing law. * [Hobby, an activity or interest pursued for pleasure or relaxation and not as a main occupation](http://www.dictionary.com/browse/hobby)
12. This Code of Merit governs the technical procedures of the project not the
activities outside of it.
13. Participation on the project equates to agreement of this Code of Merit.
14. No objectives beyond the stated objectives of this project are relevant
to the project. Any intent to deviate the project from its original purpose
of existence will constitute grounds for remedial action which may include
expulsion from the project.
This document is the Code of Merit (http://code-of-merit.org), version 1.0.