996.ICU/README.md

996.ICU
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The name `996.ICU` refers to **'Work by "996", sick in ICU'**, an ironic saying among Chinese programmers, which means that by following the "996" work schedule, you are risking yourself getting into the ICU (Intensive Care Unit).

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If you want to reference 996.icu badge, read [What can I do?](#what-can-i-do) as follow.

Repo for counting stars and contributing. Press <kbd>F</kbd> to pay your respect to honorable developers.

What is 996?
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A "996" work schedule refers to an unofficial work schedule (9 a.m. ~ 9 p.m., 6 days per week) that has been gaining in popularity. Serving a company that encourages the "996" work schedule usually means working for at least 60 hours per week.

What can I do?
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- Update this [list](blacklist/blacklist.md) with evidence to help every worker.  
- Add this [badge](externals/instruction.md) to your project to support 996.ICU.  
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- 更新这个[名单](blacklist/blacklist.md)（附带证据），来帮助每一位工作者。
- 把这个[徽章](externals/instruction.md)加入你的项目来支持996.ICU

The principle and purpose of this repository!
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* 996.ICU is an initiative initiated by IT practitioners. We welcome people from other fields and other countries to join the discussion.

* This is not a political movement. We firmly uphold the labor law and require employers to respect the legitimate rights and interests of their employees.
  
* It is a great progress from closed source to open source, and it will also be a great progress from open source to emphasize labor rights at the same time. What we want is to create an open source software license that advocates for workers' rights.

* We are willing to hear all positive and constructive proposals and advocate for mature and responsible speech.

* We are working on the drafting of 996ICU License right now and we hope to get help from professionals with relevant experience.

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* 996.ICU 是IT从业者发起的一项倡议，我们欢迎其他领域、其他国家的人士加入讨论。

* 这并不是一个政治运动，我们坚定维护劳动法，我们要求雇主尊重雇员的合法权益。

* 从闭源到开源是一次伟大的进步，从开源到同时强调保护劳工权益也将是一次伟大的进步，我们想要创造一个主张保护劳动者权益的开源软件许可证。

* 我们欢迎一切积极的、具有建设性意义的建议，倡导成熟的、负责任的发言。

* 目前 996ICU License 处于起草阶段，希望有相关经验的专业人士能给予帮助。

Expand influence
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[Translations of 996.ICU's contents](i18n/i18n.md), feel free to adjust the format, add some contents or fix grammatical errors. Please note that adding too many translations is getting off the track.

Community powers
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 - [955.WLB](https://github.com/formulahendry/955.WLB) is a repo that maintains a whitelist of 955 work–life balanced companies. It promotes people to flee 996 and join 955.

 - [996.LAW](https://github.com/Y1ran/996.Law) is a repo that collects useful information about cases between employees and enterprise.

 - [996.TSC](https://github.com/lxlxw/996.TSC) is a repo designed to let more people know and join the activity of 996.ICU.

 - [996.LIST](https://github.com/fengT-T/996_list) is a repo of a rank list of 996 companies and 955 companies.

Where are the issues?
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Even with interaction limits on, the issue area was totally out of control.  
So I **personally** decided to switch it off, not by GitHub or others.

License
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[996ICU License](LICENSE)  

 - The purpose of this license is to prevent anti-labour-law companies from using the software or codes under the license, and force those companies to balance their work schedule.
 - It is an idea of @xushunke: **Design A Software License Of Labor Protection -- 996ICU License**. See [#15642](https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU/pull/15642) for more details.  
> This version of 996ICU License is drafted by [Katt Gu, J.D, University of Illinois, College of Law](https://scholar.google.com.sg/citations?user=PTcpQwcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao); advised by [Suji Yan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tedkoyan/), CEO of [Dimension](https://www.dimension.im).
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> This draft is adapted from the MIT license. For more detailed explaination, please see [Wiki](https://github.com/kattgu7/996-License-Draft/wiki). This license is designed to be compatible with all major open source licenses.
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> For law professionals or anyone who are willing to contribute to further version directly, please go to [996-License-Draft](https://github.com/kattgu7/996-License-Draft). Thank you.