# Piracy Policy

**Effective Date:** The moment you read this  
**Jurisdiction:** The open sea (and all git remotes)

## 1. Purpose

Most 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:

**Don't feed the machines.** This code is written for humans to read, use,
learn from, and build upon. It is not training data for models owned by
companies that extract from the commons and sell back the concentrate.
If you want AI that serves everyone, train it on data whose authors consented.

**Don't sell what should be free.** This code is not a product for you to
wrap in a subscription and serve from your cloud. If you want to offer it
as a service, contribute back. Or better yet — help your users run it
themselves. If anyone is going to charge for this work, it should be the
people who wrote it. And even then, we'd prefer you pay us voluntarily,
because you value what we do — not because we locked you out.

Everything else? Copy it. Fork it. Ship it. Teach it. Break it. Fix it.
Make it yours.

## 2. Data Collection

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.)

## 3. Your Rights

Under this Piracy Policy, you are granted the irrevocable right to:

- **Copy** this repository. All of it. Right now.
- **Fork** it without asking. We will not notice. That is by design.
- **Modify** it beyond recognition. Make it yours.
- **Distribute** it to friends, colleagues, strangers, and enemies.
- **Learn from it.** Read the code. Study the patterns. Steal the ideas.
- **Not credit us.** The LICENSE may require it. Our egos do not.

## 4. Our Obligations

We pledge to:

- Never add telemetry.
- Never paywall features.
- Never require an account.
- Never enshittify this project.

If we break this pledge, fork us. That is the correct response.

## 5. Third-Party Sharing

Encouraged. Vigorously.

## 6. Data Retention

We retain nothing about you.

You may retain everything about us. That is how open source works:
**the code remembers, the server forgets.**

## 7. Why This Exists

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.**

## 8. Changes to This Policy

This policy may be updated to grant additional freedoms.
It will never be updated to restrict them.

## 9. Contact

Open an issue. Or don't. We are not tracking whether you do.

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*This project is licensed under [LICENSE]. This Piracy Policy does not
replace the license — it explains why we chose an open one.*

*Pirate this policy: [piracypolicy.dev](https://piracypolicy.dev)*