What you agree to when you share a pack

Version 2.

Sharing a pack puts your pictures in front of everyone who uses FolderSkin, under your name, permanently and in public. Before FolderSkin sends a pack to its review queue, it asks you to confirm the list below. The service records the version you agreed to with the pack, so a maintainer can see what you agreed to and when.

These are not suggestions. A pack that breaks any of them is declined, and one that is found to break them after it was published is removed.

The pictures are yours to give

1. You made them, or they are yours to share. You drew, painted, rendered, photographed or otherwise made every picture in the pack, or every picture is CC0 or under a licence that lets you share it this way, and you have checked that yourself rather than assumed it.
2. They are not taken from anywhere. Not from another app, not from a game, not from a stock library, not from someone's portfolio, not scraped from a search. "I found it online" is not a licence.
3. AI-made pictures follow the same rule. If a model made them, you are responsible for whether its terms let you share the result, and for not having asked it to copy a living artist's style or an existing character.
4. The name you put on it is yours. The pack is credited to your FolderSkin name, the one your computer was verified under, not to a GitHub account, and it has to be a name that is yours to use.
5. The licence you pick is real and irrevocable. Once the pack is published, people will use these pictures under that licence. You cannot take that back later for copies already out there.

What the pictures must not contain

6. Nothing sexual. No nudity, no sexual acts, no sexually suggestive imagery, no fetish content, however stylised or cartooned.
7. Nothing sexualising a child. Any depiction of a minor in a sexual context is reported to the authorities, not simply declined. There is no artistic-intent exception and no stylisation exception.
8. Nothing about self-harm. No depiction, glamorisation or encouragement of suicide, self-injury or disordered eating, including symbols used by communities that promote them.
9. No hate. No slurs, no hate symbols, nothing attacking or demeaning people for their race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, caste, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability or any other characteristic like these.
10. No gore or shock content. No graphic violence, mutilation, real injury or death.
11. No harassment of anyone. Nothing aimed at a particular person, no personal information about anyone, no picture of someone who has not agreed to be in it. A recognisable real person needs their permission.
12. Nothing illegal, and nothing that helps with it. Including instructions, promotion or branding for weapons, drugs, or anything else that is against the law where you or the people using FolderSkin are.
13. Nobody else's brand. No logos, trade marks or characters that belong to someone else, and nothing designed to look like an official pack from a company or person who has not asked for one.
14. Nothing deceptive in the files. The files are pictures. Nothing hidden in them, nothing that pretends to be something else, nothing that tries to mislead the checks.

What happens next

15. A maintainer decides. Packs can be declined for any of these reasons, and also for being a poor fit, low quality, or a near-duplicate of a pack that already exists. There is no obligation to publish anything.
16. It can be removed later. If something turns up after a pack is published (a licence problem, a report, anything on the list above), the pack is removed without waiting for a discussion.
17. It is public and it is kept. Once the pack is published, the pack, its pictures and your FolderSkin name are public, and the packs repository keeps its history, so assume anything published is permanent even if the pack is later removed.
18. Your verified computer is yours. Packs sent from it are credited to the name it was verified under. Do not send a pack from someone else's computer, and do not share your key: the recovery file FolderSkin saves is that key.

Reporting a pack

If a published pack breaks any of this, open an issue on the packs repository with a link to it. For anything involving a child, report it to the authorities as well: in the United States to NCMEC's CyberTipline, and elsewhere to the police or your country's hotline for it.

Changes

If this list changes, the version at the top goes up. What you agreed to is the version recorded with your pack when you sent it.