Contribution Agreement

0. What this is

This document was previously published as the "Beta Community CC0

Agreement". It has been renamed to the Contribution Agreement, the

name used everywhere else on this site. It is the same document, and an

acceptance recorded under the old name still stands.

It is a clickwrap agreement that every person admitted to the beta

community accepts before being given access to the Narrow Way

Commons review queue, or to the gated demo and test copies of Narrow

Way Commons and Saint School. It combines:

CC0 dedication of your contributions
Confidentiality of test-tier material
No-warranty acknowledgement
Acknowledgement of the staged public-release review
Acknowledgement of the upstream-copyright stack

1. The agreement

By accepting this agreement, you (the "Beta Member") agree to the

following terms with Robert Karsten Zaar, an individual, of

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (the "Operator"). The Operator is not

an incorporated body and does not enter this agreement on behalf of

Apostoli Viae or any other organisation. The Operator can be reached

at privacy@nwpcode.org, or through our contact form at /contact.

You must be at least 18 years of age to accept this agreement. Narrow

Way Commons is offered to adults, as the

1.1 CC0 dedication of your contributions

For every contribution you make to the project — whether on Narrow

Way Commons, on Saint School, or on any demo or test copy of either —

you dedicate that contribution to the public domain under

CC0 1.0 Universal, with an MIT Licence fallback should CC0

prove ineffective in any jurisdiction. You acknowledge:

Your contribution is inbound = outbound: it is offered under the same dual licence as the rest of the project.
You certify the origin of your contribution (aka the Developer Certificate of Origin, DCO v1.1) — that it is yours to give. This applies to all your contributions and is summarised in section 2 below.
You give the moral-rights consent under s 195AW of the *Copyright Act 1968* (Cth) as set out in the project's canonical NOTICE text, available at the site footer.

1.2 Confidentiality of test-tier material

You acknowledge that material visible inside the gated demo and test

copies of Narrow Way Commons and Saint School, and any equivalent

future test site, is not for redistribution. You agree:

Not to export, screenshot at scale, scrape, or copy test-tier material outside of legitimate research and study use
Not to share test-tier material with any person who is not themselves a beta member of this project
To report any accidental leakage to the Operator promptly

You may, of course, take personal notes for your own research; you

may quote test-tier material when discussing it with other beta

members; you may use what you learn to inform the original content

you create through the Narrow Way Commons review pipeline.

1.3 No-warranty on test material

You accept test material on an as-is basis. Transcripts, indexes,

and search results are computer-generated and may contain errors.

You agree not to rely on the test-tier material as authoritative,

and the Operator makes no warranty of accuracy.

1.4 The staged public-release review

You acknowledge that:

No test-tier material flows to the public surface directly.
The public surface receives only material that has cleared the site's staged editorial review. The stages are writer review, audience fit, media review, pedagogy review, theology review (with a second, higher theology confirmation for core teaching), safeguarding review, and copyright clearance, followed by approval by the Shepherds Guild and, where it applies, a trial period before production. Which stages apply depends on the kind of change — not every change passes every stage, and a stage that does not apply is skipped.
The public surface contains operator-and-community reworked human-authored expression, public-domain sources, open-licensed sources, and short attributed quotations from publicly available upstream video where useful.
Your contributions, once approved, may form part of the public surface.

1.5 The upstream copyright stack

You acknowledge:

Test-tier sites index third-party copyrighted audio under fair dealing for research, study, and criticism (`Copyright Act 1968` ss 40, 41), and equivalent provisions of US and EU law.
Where the Operator has obtained explicit permission from a rightsholder (e.g. Spiritual Direction LLC for DIR), that permission has its own terms and you agree to abide by them.
Upstream rightsholders retain all rights to their material; the Operator's CC0 dedication is bounded to material the Operator and CC0-bound beta members have authored.

1.6 Both AI-content pathways are welcome

You may submit either:

Pathway A: prompt-based AI output, with little or no further editing, OR
Pathway B: AI-assisted material that you have substantially reworked and integrated as your own intellectual effort

Both are equally welcome and dedicated under the same dual licence.

Where AI output does not attract copyright under strict-jurisdiction

rules, no claim is made — the material is freely usable as public

domain. Where copyright does subsist, the dedication operates

normally.

There is no separate AI-disclosure requirement. What you certify —

through the Developer Certificate of Origin (section 2) — is simply

that each contribution is yours to give: created by you, based on work

you have the right to submit, or provided to you by another who so

certified. That single certification governs regardless of the tools

you used, and the doctrinal soundness of every contribution is judged

on its merits by the guild reviewers, not by how it was drafted.

1.7 Beta posture

You acknowledge that the project is in a beta phase. Features,

content, structure, and these terms may change at any time. When

this agreement is updated, you will be required to re-accept the

new version on next login. The version number is at the foot of this

document, in section 4.

1.8 Termination

The Operator may revoke your beta admission at any time without

notice for cause (violation of this agreement or the AUP) or with

reasonable notice without cause. On revocation:

Your access to test-tier sites and the Narrow Way Commons review queue ends
Your previously-submitted contributions remain CC0-dedicated (CC0 is irrevocable; this agreement does not undo past contributions)

You may terminate your participation at any time by emailing the

Operator at privacy@nwpcode.org. Your past contributions remain

CC0-dedicated.

1.9 Governing law

This agreement is governed by the laws in force in Victoria,

Australia.

2. Certificate of Origin — aka Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO v1.1) — summary (incorporated by reference)

By making a contribution under this agreement, you certify that the

contribution was created by you, or is based on previous work you

have the right to submit under the open-source licence indicated,

or was provided to you by another person who so certified. You

understand the contribution will be public and a record (including

your name and email in commit metadata and Signed-off-by trailers)

will be maintained indefinitely.

Full DCO v1.1 text is reproduced in `CONTRIBUTING.md` at every NWP-

project repository.

3. Signature

By clicking "I accept" on the admission form, you acknowledge:

You have read and understood this agreement
You agree to be bound by its terms
You are at least 18 years of age
You provide the moral-rights consent in s 195AW form referenced at section 1.1
You acknowledge confidentiality of test-tier material at section 1.2

Your acceptance is recorded with timestamp, IP address, user-agent,

and your verified email. A copy of the agreement at the version you

accepted is preserved in the project's audit trail.

4. Version of this document

This is version 4 of the Contribution Agreement. The version

number is recorded here, at the foot of the document, and in the

record of your acceptance. When it changes you will be asked to

re-accept this agreement on your next login.