{
  "_comment": "Terms of service. Owns licenses, API use, and acceptable use. Privacy owns data, hosting, and ranking. Not a substitute for university counsel review.",
  "banner": {
    "title": "Terms of Service",
    "description": "How you may use CommunityRule, including licenses and the templates API.",
    "author": "Media Economies Design Lab",
    "date": "2026-08-15"
  },
  "updated": "Last updated August 15, 2026.",
  "intro": [
    "CommunityRule is a toolkit for drafting and publishing community governance documents (“Rules”). It is a project of the [Media Economies Design Lab](https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/) at the University of Colorado Boulder. It is not legal advice."
  ],
  "sections": [
    {
      "heading": "Licenses",
      "paragraphs": [
        "Guides, template copy, and other materials we publish here, and Rules you publish, are licensed [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Do not publish material you cannot share under that license.",
        "CommunityRule is open source. Application source code is [GPL-3.0 or later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html). You can read and fork it on [Gitea](https://git.medlab.host/CommunityRule/community-rule)."
      ]
    },
    {
      "heading": "Templates API",
      "paragraphs": [
        "The curated template library is available as JSON without signing in. [GET /api/templates](/api/templates) lists templates; GET /api/templates/{slug} returns one template. Reuse that copy under CC BY-SA.",
        "Do not overload this hosted API. If you need your own copy, run the GPL-licensed source yourself."
      ]
    },
    {
      "heading": "Using the service",
      "paragraphs": [
        "Do not break, overload, or misuse the site or its APIs. We may suspend access to protect it or other people. The service is offered as-is for research and education; to the extent the law allows, MEDLab and the University of Colorado are not liable for your use of it or of a Rule created here.",
        "Questions: [medlab@colorado.edu](mailto:medlab@colorado.edu)."
      ]
    }
  ]
}