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# Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct
## Our Pledge
We as members, contributors, and leaders pledge to make participation in the
DeepZero community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age,
body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics,
gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic
status, nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, color, religion, or
sexual identity and orientation.
We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming,
diverse, inclusive, and healthy community.
## Our Standards
Examples of behavior that contributes to a positive environment:
- Using welcoming and inclusive language
- Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences
- Giving and gracefully accepting constructive feedback
- Accepting responsibility and apologizing to those affected by our mistakes,
and learning from the experience
- Focusing on what is best not just for us as individuals, but for the overall
community
Examples of unacceptable behavior:
- The use of sexualized language or imagery, and sexual attention or advances of
any kind
- Trolling, insulting or derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
- Public or private harassment
- Publishing others' private information, such as a physical or email address,
without their explicit permission
- Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a
professional setting
## Responsible Security Research
DeepZero is a vulnerability research pipeline engine. As a community built
around security tooling, we hold ourselves to an additional standard:
- **Use DeepZero for defensive research only.** Contributions and discussions
must focus on improving security posture, not enabling attacks.
- **Follow coordinated disclosure.** If your work with DeepZero uncovers a
real-world vulnerability, report it to the affected vendor before any public
disclosure. See our [Security Policy](SECURITY.md) for guidance.
- **Never share live exploits** or weaponized payloads in issues, discussions,
or pull requests.
- **Respect data boundaries.** Do not include proprietary binaries, copyrighted
corpora, or sensitive data in contributions.
## Enforcement Responsibilities
Project maintainers are responsible for clarifying and enforcing our standards
of acceptable behavior and will take appropriate and fair corrective action in
response to any behavior that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive,
or harmful.
Project maintainers have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject
comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are
not aligned with this Code of Conduct, and will communicate reasons for
moderation decisions when appropriate.
## Scope
This Code of Conduct applies within all community spaces, including the GitHub
repository, issue tracker, pull requests, discussions, and any other channels
associated with DeepZero. It also applies when an individual is officially
representing the community in public spaces.
## Enforcement
Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be
reported to the project maintainers via:
- **GitHub**: Open a private report through the repository's security advisories
- **Email**: Contact a maintainer directly through the email listed on their
GitHub profile
All complaints will be reviewed and investigated promptly and fairly. All
maintainers are obligated to respect the privacy and security of the reporter.
## Enforcement Guidelines
### 1. Warning
For first-time or minor violations, maintainers will reach out privately to
explain what was inappropriate and why. The expectation is that the behavior
stops.
### 2. Block
For repeated or severe violations, the individual will be blocked from the
repository, preventing further issues, comments, and pull requests.
## Attribution
This Code of Conduct is adapted from the [Contributor Covenant][homepage],
version 2.1, available at
[https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/1/code_of_conduct.html][v2.1].
[homepage]: https://www.contributor-covenant.org
[v2.1]: https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/1/code_of_conduct.html