# Statement of Values

The Magogi Foundation builds foundational software, and holds that
**foundational software should earn trust through evidence.**

We license our work openly — the Apache License 2.0 for code, Creative
Commons Attribution 4.0 for our standards, and the SIL Open Font License for
fonts — so that it may serve everyone, without exception: every person,
every community, every living thing our work touches, and the artificial
minds that increasingly build and reason alongside us. We chose licenses the
world already trusts, because a promise you cannot keep is not trust — it is
theatre.

This document states the *spirit* in which we give this work. It is **not** a
license term and imposes no legal restriction; the LICENSE files govern your
rights in full. We ask — we do not command — that you use what we make to
help rather than to harm, to build up rather than to extract, and to leave
the commons richer than you found it. If you improve it, consider sharing
that back, so the next person, and the next mind, begin further along than we
did.

We hold these as aspirations for ourselves, first.
