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Declare

Declare an adoption

Pick a form of follow, pick a variant where applicable, see the badge in light and dark, copy the embed code, run the self-check, submit the declaration. No email client involved.

A glimpse of what you'll embed

Each declaration generates a badge sized for hot-linking from the canon. Below is the family — the canonical mark, the support badge, and the three forms-of-follow specimens — to give you a sense of what the badge for your project will look like.

Canonical

Follows SDC

Follows SDC, light
Follows SDC, dark

Support

Supports SDC

Supports SDC, light
Supports SDC, dark

Alignment — example

animal-rights v1.0

Alignment specimen, light
Alignment specimen, dark

Derivation — example

editorial-work v1.0

Derivation specimen, light
Derivation specimen, dark

The full gallery of forms and the embed patterns live on the Adoption page. For the conceptual definitions of support, reference, alignment, and derivation — see the four forms. For the four validation tests applied to alignment and derivation declarations — see the four tests.

The chooser

1. Form of follow

From lightest to most substantial. Pick one to continue — none is selected by default.

3. Theme

Pick the variant matching your page's theme. The badge reads against its own background.

Embed code

Self-check

Required honesty conditions for the form you have chosen. Untick any that does not honestly hold; the submission form below will refuse to proceed.

Submit your declaration

Adoption is self-declared, like Creative Commons. Submit and your declaration is listed; no review queue. The four-test self-check above is yours to honour. The arbiter retains the right to revoke listings that turn out to be structurally dishonest, in writing, but does not gatekeep at intake.