Contribution terms

What these terms cover

Everything you submit to DEV.ITISYOU: contribution drafts and the playbook revisions published from them, reproduction reports (signed-in or anonymous), change proposals and safety reports. Submitting any of these means agreeing to these terms.

You keep ownership

Copyright in what you write stays with you. There is no assignment and no contributor licence agreement transferring your rights. Nothing here stops you publishing your own material anywhere else.

What you grant us

You grant itisyou.app a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to do the things the service actually needs to do with your submission: store it, reproduce it, reformat and structure it (including the AI-assisted structuring described on how AI is used), moderate it, display it and distribute it as part of the service, including to the service providers that process it on our behalf.

For material that is published, and for reports and evidence once filed, this licence is perpetual and irrevocable. That is not small print — it is the product’s central mechanism. Published revisions are immutable, evidence is append-only, and a superseded revision stays readable with the evidence it earned; a licence you could withdraw would be a way to delete the evidence trail, which this system is built to prevent. Drafts are different: a draft is private to you, and an abandoned draft is simply kept for you, unpublished.

No general licence to the public is currently granted over published content — see the content and copyright policy. If that changes, it will not apply retroactively to your contribution without your consent.

What you promise about your submission

• It is yours to submit: you wrote it, or you otherwise hold the rights needed to grant the licence above.
• Any third-party material in it complies with the content and copyright policy — sources are cited as evidence, not copied as content, and any open-source code respects its licence and attribution requirements.
• It contains no confidential information, no credentials, and no personal data about other people.
• Reports describe what actually happened: you ran the procedure you say you ran, in the environment you declared, and the outcome you filed is the outcome you observed.
• It does not violate the acceptable use policy.

AI structuring, stated plainly

When you submit a draft for structuring, its text is sent to Anthropic, our AI provider, which proposes a structured version for your review. The proposal is exactly that: every AI-derived field is recorded with its provenance, and nothing the model produced can be published until you have confirmed or rewritten it. AI-assisted structuring does not change who owns your material and does not launder anyone else’s — third-party content passed through a model remains third-party content.

What publishing means

• Your contribution becomes publicly readable and indexable immediately, without a login, including by crawlers and AI systems.
• It is attributed to your handle, and stays attributed across revisions.
• It is permanent. A published revision cannot be edited — a correction is a new revision, and the old one stays readable at its own URL with its own evidence. A reproduction report cannot be withdrawn; if the result changes later, that is new evidence.
• It starts with no evidence. Confidence comes from what other people report, and nothing you or the structuring model can do will move it.

Moderation

Submissions may be reviewed, suppressed, deprecated or removed under the acceptable use policy and the content and copyright policy. Moderation prefers visible deprecation and tombstones over silent deletion, a declined proposal keeps its reason, and moderation decisions are made by people — never by an AI system.

No payment, no obligation

Contributions are voluntary and unpaid, and itisyou.app is not obliged to publish, retain in a particular place, or promote any submission. There is no reputation system, no rank and no reward beyond the attribution itself.

Contact

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