A policy for projects that have nothing to hide and everything to share.
↓ scrollMost software ships with a Privacy Policy explaining how your data is collected, stored, processed, shared, monetized, breached, apologized for, and eventually leaked to a hacker forum.
Other software ships with no source code at all — locked behind binaries, wrapped in license keys, and guarded by legal departments whose entire purpose is to make sure you never truly own what you paid for. They call it "intellectual property." We call it artificial scarcity.
This is neither of those documents.
This is a Piracy Policy. We liberate your data and our code, set both free for you to do whatever you want with them. Protect or share — your choice.
There are two things we ask you not to do:
Everything else? Copy it. Fork it. Ship it. Teach it. Break it. Fix it. Make it yours.
We collect no data. None. Zero. Null. nil. undefined. ∅.
We do not use cookies, trackers, analytics, pixels, fingerprints, beacons, or whatever surveillance apparatus the adtech industry has invented since this sentence was written.
We do not know you visited. We do not care. (We care about you as a person. We just don't need your IP address to prove it.)
If we break this pledge, fork us. That is the correct response.
Encouraged. Vigorously.
We retain nothing about you.
You may retain everything about us. That is how open source works: the code remembers, the server forgets.
The modern internet has normalized the collection of personal data as a precondition for using software. Privacy policies have become terms of surrender — documents where users "consent" to surveillance they cannot meaningfully refuse.
Open source offers an alternative. Software that serves its users without watching them. Infrastructure you can inspect, modify, and own.
This Piracy Policy is a reminder that it doesn't have to be the other way.
Your attention is not our product. Your data is not our business model. Your freedom to copy this code is not a bug — it is the entire point.
This policy may be updated to grant additional freedoms. It will never be updated to restrict them.
Questions? Open an issue — or don't. We are not tracking whether you do.
As someone who went to federal prison for internet piracy and also creates and contributes to open-source software, I love this.
— Josh Brody
Add a PIRACY.md to your project. Replace [LICENSE] with your actual license.
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