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The following license is modified from the MIT license and downloaded from <github.com/Laurelai/anti-fascist-mit-license> on 2019-07-11.

Anti-Fascist MIT License:

The following conditions must be met by any person obtaining a copy of this software:

“Fascist” can be understood as any group or individual who promotes the political ideology of fascism.

“Fascism” can be broken down into 11 ideological features as well as 8 tactics that can form a fascist system in varying combinations, for the sake of simplicity and brevity the individual or organization in question must match to at least 5 features or tactics or a combination of the two determined by the individual licencer.

Said licencer may provide a list if an individual or group matches to at least 5 features upon request from the individual or group in question.

The ideological features are listed below.

  1. Hyper-nationalism.

As defined as “The belief in the superiority of one's nation and of the paramount importance of advancing it.”

  1. Militarism.

As defined as “Advocating for an increase in military forces beyond what the real defense of a nation needs, more influence of the military upon the policies of the civilian government, and a preference for force as a solution over diplomacy for problems.”

  1. Glorification of violence and readiness to use it in politics.

As defined as “The belief that violence can be used to cleanse a tarnished nation, also by using violence to harm, intimidate or kill political oppoenents.”

  1. Fetishization of youth.

As defined as “Extolling the virtues of youth and making a special appeal to young people to join a cause or organization”

  1. Fetishization of masculinity.

As defined as “Extolling the virtues of male authority or patriarchy and making a special appeal to men to be leaders of households and groups”

  1. Leader cult.

As defined as “Creating an idealized, heroic, and worshipful image of a leader, often through unquestioning flattery and praise.”

  1. Lost-golden-age syndrome.

As defined as “Creating or promoting the idea that a nation had a lost or stolen golden age in the past that must be returned to”

  1. Self-definition by opposition.

As defined as “Creating or promoting the idea that the group or individual is the only person or way who can fight real or imagined evils within a society.”

  1. Mass mobilization and mass party.

As defined as “Creating or promoting the creation of a populist group or party for the advancment of fascist tactics or features.”

  1. Hierarchical party structure and tendency to purge the disloyal.

As defined as “Removal of membership from a group for lacking absolute loyalty or lacking further usefulness to the group. Also having a hierarchical structure within the group itself.”

  1. Theatricality.

As defined as “Using spectacle to gain and keep the attention of those inside and outside of the group using speeches full of absolutes and or superlatives. Elaborate collective rituals (rallies) meant to reenforce loyalty within the group.”

Fascist tactics include

1) Persecution of national minorities. 2) Persecution of racial minorities. 3) Persecution of religious minorities (Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and others). 4) Promotion of a type of national purity. 5) Promotion of a state run by ideologically oriented corporate bodies. 6) Persecution of gender or sexual minorities. 7) Persecution of the disabled. 8) Formation of extra-legal forces (brownshirts) to defend fascist values.

Special criteria: Meeting only one point of the special criteria is enough to consider someone or a group to be fascist for the purposes of this licence.

  1. Promotion of any theories that state members of the jewish ethnicity or faith control or largely control the world, finance, or other global major power system.

  2. Denial of the holocaust or any other historically proven genocide.

  3. Promotion of ethnostates.

  4. Advocating for eugenics. Either positive or negative eugenics. Promotion for the rights of abortion are not considered eugenics.

  5. Advocating for the removal of rights or legal protections from a class or group of people.

Former fascists: People or organizations who used to promote the political ideology of fascism but no longer do so must meet the following criterea to be able to use this software.

  1. Publicly disavow past fascist deeds and ideologies.

  2. Expose any and all known fascists former allies to the public.

    A suggested route would be through the one peoples project (onepeoplesproject.com). If they can confirm you have done so that will count as meeting condition two.

  3. Publicly destroy any and all fascist paraphenelia you have in your posession including removal of tattoos and body markings affiliated with fascist groups or gangs.

ANTI-FASCIST-MIT LICENSE:

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

The above licence agreement conditions are met in full.

The Anti-Fascist MIT License may only be used under the terms of the Anti-Fascist MIT License.

Any modified versions of this software must also include the Anti-Fascist MIT Licence.

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