From bead4ed4db8e9f1c331e5d22c6e975de1711c95d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick Georgi Date: Wed, 31 May 2023 19:32:52 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: Add section on how the project responds to legal threats Threatening or initiating legal action against the maintainers of our infrastructure or projects (all projects hosted on our infrastructure) is a huge stressor to those maintainers. To underline that severity, such threats or action will lead to an immediate ban from our infrastructure as agreed on the leadership meeting of 2023-05-31. There may be legitimate legal action to take in certain cases, and it's always possible to unban people, but given the severity provide warning that we'll opt for a "ban first, sort out later" approach. Change-Id: Ifa865487dc81ed3797fe60e5cef737c57dd85fea Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/75554 Reviewed-by: Elyes Haouas Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Stefan Reinauer --- Documentation/community/code_of_conduct.md | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/community/code_of_conduct.md b/Documentation/community/code_of_conduct.md index 179612cdfa..d40dafe031 100644 --- a/Documentation/community/code_of_conduct.md +++ b/Documentation/community/code_of_conduct.md @@ -95,6 +95,17 @@ If you feel you have been falsely or unfairly accused of violating this Code of Conduct, you should notify the arbitration team with a concise description of your grievance. +## Legal action + +Threatening or starting legal action against the project, sibling +projects hosted on coreboot.org infrastructure, project or infrastructure +maintainers leads to an immediate ban from coreboot.org and related +systems. + +The ban can be reconsidered, but it's the default action because the +people who pour lots of time and money into the projects aren't interested +in seeing their resources used against them. + ## Scope We expect all community participants (contributors, paid or otherwise;