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14 January 2020
Few-Maintainer Projects -
13 January 2020
Renaming API Copyleftnaming for purpose, not implementation
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09 January 2020
Starting Noncommercialfamous projects that started noncommercial
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07 January 2020
API Copyleft 2.0.0-pre.1bringing the best of Parity to API Copyleft
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17 December 2019
Video Footnotesone-way video as hackable interactive medium
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16 December 2019
The Main EventAmazon versus Startups and the New York Times
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11 December 2019
The Doorway NDAlawyers earning their stereotypes
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09 December 2019
Paste Your Terms Into Your E-Mailswhy don’t we do the obvious thing?
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08 December 2019
Teach Everyone to Be Like UsMoxie Marlinspike, wiser than he may have known
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07 December 2019
git push is the Processpermissionless license development now
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06 December 2019
Big Time Public Licensea noncommercial, small-biz license with a big-biz fair terms guarantee
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05 December 2019
Rakow 2019score one, illegal art people
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02 December 2019
Correct and Intuitive FairnessHow can a license say what “fair” is ahead of time?
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30 November 2019
I Am Not Advising Legallysmart people don’t understand lawyers’ disclaimers
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29 November 2019
A Fistful of Servicesmy go-to web applications and utilities
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27 November 2019
TNR12 and Be Therelearning from others
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26 November 2019
npm fundnew subcommand and metadata standard
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24 November 2019
Talking Points: Ethical Licensescollecting points and counterpoints
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23 November 2019
Reading the WeAllJS Code of Conductline-by-line and off-the-cuff
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22 November 2019
XML versus JSONkey quote form a great paper
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22 November 2019
Universal Share-Alike Licensecopyleft across different kinds of work
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17 November 2019
Venture Capital Shillscapegoating free software’s failures
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13 November 2019
Nomadic Lawyeringoffice out, travel in?
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10 November 2019
MulanPSLa new riff on the Apache patent bargain from China
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09 November 2019
Heather Meeker on “Ethos Licensing”free and open is ethos licensing, too
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07 November 2019
“BSD with PATENTS” and “BSD-2-Clause Plus Patent” are Not the Samesimilar licenses, very different receptions
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06 November 2019
Love this Licenselaw brut with ASCII art
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04 November 2019
Blue Oak Guide to Copyleftshort introduction and license families
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04 November 2019
Waypoint Trademarkprotecting the integrity of a standard form
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22 October 2019
CASE Act Flythroughnotes from a quick read of H.R. 2426
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16 October 2019
Blue Oak Test Suitetest cases for new public licenses
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16 October 2019
Blue Oak Reading Listreading list for lawyers new to open source
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12 October 2019
XLC Building Blocksessential concepts and vocabulary for cross-license collaboratives
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05 October 2019
Cross-License Collaborativesdecentralizing contributor license agreements
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03 October 2019
Standards, Patents, Open Sourcetowards constructive collaboration across practice communities
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03 October 2019
Blue Oak Guidance on Mergers and Acquisitionsplease stop paying me so much to fix reps and warranties
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28 September 2019
No LICENSEthey won’t see your funding plea if they never look
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28 September 2019
Our Ethics, Not Yoursin defense of Seth Vargo and morality-first licenses
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26 September 2019
The Tyranny of Timelicensing gives developers much-needed flexibility
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25 September 2019
Open Core is Not a Good Storythree better ways to express yourself and your company
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10 September 2019
Open Legal Podcast?considering an open legal podcast
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09 September 2019
Is this conference a good idea?forthcoming talk at a conference
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09 September 2019
The Great Open Source Shake-Upmore mandatory reading from Kate Downing
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09 September 2019
Here Comes the CCPAmy annotated copy of the statute
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09 September 2019
Waypoint 2.0.0a more adaptable, international standard
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05 September 2019
Changebloga few thoughts on a friend’s podcast appearance
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15 August 2019
Require Credit For Your Softwarea general-purpose legal tool to require credit for open work
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17 July 2019
Waypoint Abroadseeking quick reads from non-US counsel
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14 July 2019
PANDA for Privacythe NDA for your personal information
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12 July 2019
PolyForm 1.0.0standard noncommercial software licenses at last
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27 June 2019
Heather Meeker on Patent Risk Allocationunique compilation of arguments and dynamics
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25 June 2019
Get In, Get Outopen source advice for new programmers breaking into the industry
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24 June 2019
Help Take the Waypoint NDA Internationala call for help from common-law colleagues
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24 June 2019
Open Lettersa snail mail experiment
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20 June 2019
A Twit No Morefarewell, Twitter
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17 June 2019
Dark Arts at Daybreakthe end of club rule in open source law
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15 June 2019
Operating Environmentessential industry background for reading open software licenses
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13 June 2019
SSPL Was Not Commons Clausehow open licensing blew its biggest opportunity of the 2010s
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30 May 2019
PolyForm Projectsimple, standard, plain-language software licenses
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21 May 2019
Mortarboard Licensesgraduate to new public license terms
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18 May 2019
Schools of Cohesionexploring the crosswise policy biases we learn from open software
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12 May 2019
Prone Blogging Setuphow to type when the pain puts you on your back
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08 May 2019
Tyranny of Permissionlessnessopen source’s narrow focus further empowers those with other ways to exclude
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05 May 2019
Don’t Rely on OSI Approvalactivist approval does not track practical needs
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29 April 2019
AFL-3.0 versus OSL-3.0a redline (diff) with important network terms highlighted
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23 April 2019
The Waypoint NDAstop wasting time on NDAs
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23 April 2019
#wontfixendorsements can’t fix the Open Source Definition
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12 April 2019
Calls to Sustainability Action via package.jsona new proposal, schema, and tools
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11 April 2019
Enterprise Ready Open Software License Supplementthe status quo, plus money for devs
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06 April 2019
Stairway to Heavenrepairing broken steps to software license Nirvana
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18 March 2019
The Diachronic Treadmill Licenseautomatically reward supporters with copyleft exceptions
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17 March 2019
License Utopiajust four licenses for all of open source
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15 March 2019
Ethical Subcommons Starter Kitbringing openness to software of moral concern
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11 March 2019
Weak or Strong is Wrongtowards selective or consistent copyleft
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09 March 2019
Deprecation Notice: MIT and BSDit’s time to retire thirty-year-old academic licenses
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07 March 2019
Blue Oak Councilopening the software commons to everyone
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04 March 2019
Back to IPthe copyright giant has a policy
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25 February 2019
Indie Open Sourcedeveloping resource for indie-ready business models
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24 February 2019
Open Source Software License Reading Lista comprehensive curriculum for new license wonks
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22 February 2019
First Thoughts on the Redis Source Available License Agreementevident demand for license rules on API boundaries
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22 February 2019
API Copyleft License 1.0.0first release of API-boundary copyleft form
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30 January 2019
API Copyleftfunctionality, interfaces, and line drawing in a new copyleft paradigm
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27 January 2019
Critique This Licensedeveloping a standard paid-software license
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12 January 2019
Shared Component Licensefirst shot at a short, plain license in the vein of Mongo’s SSPL
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12 January 2019
Outer Sourceopen software by closed methods
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10 January 2019
The Discipline of Stated Purposewrite out the purposes of legal terms in contracts
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09 January 2019
Availability Dashboardprofessional availability now online
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18 December 2018
Apache-2.0 versus ECL-2.0a redline (diff) showing substantive changes
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05 December 2018
Open Source is Not About Youa minimal, functionalist view of open source
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04 December 2018
Open HandicapsDid permissive used to advantage open work like copyleft does today?
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12 November 2018
Selective Opennessmaking money by choosing what to give away
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05 November 2018
The Open Source Definition as Copyleft Regulationan in-depth review of commonly cited criteria
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04 November 2018
The Copyleft Bust Uploopholes, licenses, and realpolitik in open source
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24 October 2018
How to Speak Copyleftthe missing vocabulary of copyleft design
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17 October 2018
Elsewhere: Mapping Open Business Modelscrosspost from the License Zero blog
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07 October 2018
Seeking Comment: Copyright Notice Recommendationfirst stab at a pragmatic best-practice guide
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07 October 2018
A Canting Tribe Are Weattacking the NDA problem with standards networks
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01 October 2018
Indirect Licensingdispensing software licenses in the Internet era
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30 September 2018
Contributor Councilsrelicensing without foundation, BDFL, or unanimity
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24 September 2018
Motorcycles in the Winddo not do or die
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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
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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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