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Tweaking about.md language on inheritance

Nathan Schneider 4 years ago
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 # BASICS
 structure: CommunityRule is a governance toolkit for great communities.
-mission: Too many of our communities adopt default governance practices that rely on the authority of founders, admins, or moderators, lacking even basic features of small-scale democracy. The purpose of CommunityRule is to help communities establish appropriate norms for decision-making, stewardship, and culture.
+mission: Too many of our communities adopt default governance practices that rely on the unchecked authority of founders, admins, or moderators, lacking even basic features of small-scale democracy. The purpose of CommunityRule is to help communities establish appropriate norms for decision-making, stewardship, and culture.
 values:
-legal: We acknowledge that the practices we share here have long roots in many cultures. To ensure this inheritance remains a commons, content on CommunityRule is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, which means that anyone has the right to use and adapt it, the result of which must be shared under the same license.
+legal: We acknowledge that the governance practices we share here have long roots in diverse cultures. To ensure this inheritance remains a commons, content on CommunityRule is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, which means that anyone has the right to use and adapt it, and adaptations must be re-shared under the same license.
 
 # PARTICIPANTS
 membership: CommunityRule is a project of the Media Enterprise Design Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder, in collaboration with the Metagovernance Project (metagov.org). Anyone who finds this project useful, or potentially so, is welcome to contribute suggestions, changes, and additions.