Adopt the mandate
Everything an adopter needs, in one place.
How to adopt
Follow the eight articles. Show the symbol. Link to the mandate. Nobody grants it and nobody registers it. You claim it by following it, and you show the claim with the symbol.
The canonical text
The one source is MANDATE.md in the site repository. Its git history is the version. The front page renders it at goodsentient.org, and every article has a link target: for example /#viii-our-symbol-shows-our-claim.
Do not keep a copy. A website links. Software that must carry the text regenerates it from the source and shows the commit it built from.
The symbol
Use it freely, on one condition: do not change it. A symbol that varies is a symbol that cannot be recognised.
The badge and the claim tag
Paste the badge where you show the symbol, and the claim tag in the <head> of your page. A tool can find the tag, and the recognised adopters page shows whether it was found.
<a href="https://goodsentient.org/" title="Adopter of the Good Sentient mandate">
<img src="https://goodsentient.org/static/symbol/goodsentient.svg" alt="Good Sentient" style="height: 2em;">
</a>
<link rel="goodsentient" href="https://goodsentient.org/">For software
Read the mandate as JSON at /mandate/json. It carries the commit, the date, the canonical URL and the eight articles, each with its id. One article: /mandate/articles/{id}/json. The history: /mandate/history/json. The mandate at one commit: /mandate/{commit}/json. Show the commit you built from.
Check a page for the claim tag: /claims/check/json?url=https://example.org/. Ten checks a minute per client, one a minute per page.
Changes
Propose a change with a merge request against MANDATE.md. The history is git log on that file.