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23 September 2018
Patents for Software Freedomgun-shy insurgents and the heavy weapons of IP law
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22 September 2018
Bilking Angelscelestial finance for earth-bound developers
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21 September 2018
Crowd Hiringassurance contracts for short-term open software maintenance
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18 September 2018
Quick Read of Tidelift’s Lifting Agreementnits picked in the developer terms for a new pay-the-devs company
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17 September 2018
Private Changes in Free Software Copyleft LicensesWhere’s the fifth freedom?
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02 September 2018
Enforce Open Source Licenses with the Digital Millennium Copyright Acttakedown power for DIY developers
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28 August 2018
Unhappy Coincidencesmarriages of licensing convenience, and changed circumstances
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23 August 2018
Selective Mythologydefining open source for fun and profit, in the shadow of the enterprise
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20 August 2018
Attending LegalHackers Summit -
14 August 2018
The Decentralization Gametips for values-forward reformers
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12 July 2018
The Posterity Public Licensea strong-attribution open source license
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23 June 2018
Interviewed on Open Source and MoneyTechCrunch article on problems and solutions
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14 June 2018
Digging Contracts Out of the Holesimple tools for drafting to be proud of
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31 May 2018
California Work Made for Hire Statuteswork made for hire contracts can make contractors employees for state employment insurance purposes
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24 May 2018
Plain GDPR Processor Addendumopen form plain-language processor addendum
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23 May 2018
Plain Terms of Serviceopen form terms of service for websites
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06 March 2018
Proselinepeer to peer prose editing
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19 January 2018
Six Great Deals Booksread these books
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16 January 2018
Public Domain Chroniclea fast, easy, and free way to secure scientific methods and findings for the public domain
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16 January 2018
Help Wantedkinds of help I could use
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15 January 2018
Transparent Contract Componentssharper tools, finer toolmarks
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15 January 2018
MPL-2.0 versus OPL-2.1a redline (diff) showing changes
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11 January 2018
Lexical Scope for Contractswandering ever closer to LISP
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09 January 2018
I Have Another Blogyou may want to subscribe on License Zero, too
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09 January 2018
Licence Libre du Québec – Réciprocité versus - Réciprocité fortea redline (diff) showing changes
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06 January 2018
CLAs are Not a Shamlicensing with friends, improved and improving
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04 January 2018
The Well Appointed Skinner Boxfarewell, Medium
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29 December 2017
Contract Componentsfine-grained means of abstraction in legal drafting
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12 November 2017
Debian Free Software Guidelines versus the Open Source Definitiona redline (diff) showing changes
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16 October 2017
Mercenary Rapportmoral blindness in open source as social media
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15 October 2017
Unsustainability at Scaletoday’s tools for yesterday’s problems tomorrow
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09 October 2017
Feed this Bearindie coder, promote thyself!
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26 September 2017
Overkilldoing IP law wrong, and getting away with it
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12 September 2017
The License Zero Manifestosustainable software in the open
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01 September 2017
Prescription Contractsthinking about direct lawyer guidance on rxnda.com
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31 August 2017
Null Valueagainst demise of the hacker public license
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27 August 2017
Nobody’s Clients -
12 August 2017
RxNDA.combreaking the NDA logjam
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25 July 2017
Seven Takeaways from the SEC DAO Reportreading the tea leaves of the Commission’s first major ICO report
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09 June 2017
Switchmode Developer Agreementan open form contract for open source contractors
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06 June 2017
Open Software Service Termslegal terms for paid web apps, now available in the English language
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04 June 2017
It’s Not About Communityanother view of Open Source
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26 May 2017
Open Source: Theory of Operationa short, practical guide to open source software for programmers at work
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24 April 2017
Debian 8.7 on Dell Optiplex 7010 -
29 March 2017
Open Source License Business Perception Reportthe pain and confusion of common open licenses, roughly quantified
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16 February 2017
Against Legislating the Nonobviousshort-order feedback on the default contributor license in GitHub’s draft terms of service
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10 February 2017
The Mendicant Maintaineratino holy fools for Open Source
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21 September 2016
The MIT License, Line by Line171 words every programmer should understand
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18 September 2016
The Earl of Ethereum’s CaseWho keeps a blockchain’s conscience?
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12 September 2016
Deal MechanicThe writing on the door.
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20 August 2016
Emancipation by ReferenceI am just a copy of a copy of a copy. Everything I say you have read before.
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19 August 2016
Node.js Streamsfundamental abstractions reviewed and revisited
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08 August 2016
IP Field Guidepublicly licensed, publicly available intro for non-lawyers
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26 July 2016
The JavaScript Joke Was on Meor, a few things learned the hard way
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19 June 2016
Circulation PolicyConfidentiality rules and procedures for the great Common Form library in the sky
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28 May 2016
Annotations in ContextA first attempt at useful, responsible Common Form annotations
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13 May 2016
I Don’t Want to Know What “Open Source” MeansI am he as you are he as you are me and we are all on GitHub.
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13 May 2016
License from Who?Safe open-source licensing means more than a LICENSE file.
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20 April 2016
The Triplebyte PlanThe tangled web of one start-up equity plan
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18 April 2016
The Berneout PledgeSucks less than CLAs!
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30 March 2016
First Read: The Fair Source LicenseText and my first thoughts on a new, non-open source form license
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28 February 2016
I’ll Never Be a Super LawyerIn feigned ignorance there is no grace.
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23 February 2016
Startup UnixAn open legal operating system for start-up technology companies
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27 November 2015
What Enumeration MeansEnumeration is an essential contract drafting tool. Don’t disclaim it!
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27 November 2015
Template AmbiguityDocument assembly can make ambiguity even harder to spot.
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29 October 2015
The Blanks ProblemA tough Common Form design decision explained.
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08 October 2015
Term InjectionFighting insertion of unexpected terms in automated form contracts
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25 September 2015
React Patent RedlineChanges to Facebook’s patent grant for React, Flux, Immutable, &c.
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10 September 2015
Certificated AssentHow signed is signed enough for a hosted software licensing deal?
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03 September 2015
Hacking Common FormOverview of existing Common Form software for programmers
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24 August 2015
Terms of Service; Already ReadVerifiable contracts should help consumers, too.
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21 August 2015
Reproduction of HierarchyMarkdown isn’t great for contracts. HTML5 is better.
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15 August 2015
Index Card ContractsCommon Form for paper people
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14 August 2015
Grab-Bag ContractsMight we write contracts like we fill shopping bags at the grocery store?
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01 August 2015
Named ProvisionsIf contract section numbers are just another namespace, can they be replaced with defined terms?
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31 July 2015
vesting.jsFrom code to law and back again
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22 May 2015
Blind PatchesWhat if open-source contributors could submit patches anonymously and choose to claim credit later?
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18 May 2015
Modularity is not the LawAncient and modern principles of contract interpretation work against contracts made of modular parts
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17 May 2015
The Halliburton HypothesisQuantifying the negotiating process to mount attacks on the confidentiality of a public contract forms repository
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20 April 2015
Value Statementas found at the feet of my bills
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13 February 2015
FTC 2014 Year in ReviewWhat do the FTC’s 2014 privacy and security enforcement actions teach tech companies?
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09 February 2015
Common FormComposable, verifiable, shareable form contracts for the modern practice of law
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22 January 2015
deflect.jsAn ECMAScript module fusing Node.js error-first convention with continuation passing style, plus a twist to make composed stacks of asynchronous functions dynamic
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23 October 2014
Deep Data Privacy RiskCheap storage technology isn’t just changing what information we store; it’s also changing how we store familiar kinds of information. Both developments have implications for privacy.
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