Similar to clear guideline on self-delegation, this was also needed. We had a debate on many occasion on whether to support private or close source initiative or not. Ideally, each piece of code should be fork-able and open sourced but if a close source protocol is adding value to the chain and helping ecosystem grow, we should support that too.
work on new projects
one request would be extend what constitute new ? Are we talking about a new innovative application or something that is already present on other chain and we are just on-boarding it to our chain, other option would be to leave it to the council to decide but adding some clarity would help.