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@ -4,17 +4,16 @@ Proposal Etiquette
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Proposals **must** act to the greater benefit of the entire Matrix ecosystem,
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rather than benefiting or privileging any single player or subset of players
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- and must not contain any patent encumbered IP. The Matrix core team pledges
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to act as a neutral custodian for Matrix on behalf of the whole ecosystem,
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just as it has since Matrix's inception in May 2014.
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rather than benefiting or privileging any single player or subset of players -
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and must not contain any patent encumbered IP. Members of the Core Team pledge to act as
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a neutral custodian for Matrix on behalf of the whole ecosystem.
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For clarity: the Matrix ecosystem is anyone who uses the Matrix protocol. That
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includes client users, server admins, client developers, bot developers,
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bridge and AS developers, users and admins who are indirectly using Matrix via
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3rd party networks which happen to be bridged, server developers, room
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moderators and admins, companies/projects building products or services on
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Matrix, spec contributors, translators, and the core team who created it in
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Matrix, spec contributors, translators, and those who created it in
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the first place.
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"Greater benefit" could include maximising:
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@ -27,8 +26,8 @@ the first place.
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* the number of independent implementations which use Matrix
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* the quality and utility of the Matrix spec
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The guiding principles of the overall project are being worked on as part of
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the upcoming governance proposal, but could be something like:
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In addition, proposal authors are expected to uphold the following values in
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their proposed changes to the Matrix protocol:
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* Supporting the whole long-term ecosystem rather than individual stakeholder gain
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* Openness rather than proprietariness
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