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Legal Versioningrefined scheme for functional prose projects

I’ve just published legalversioning.com, a single-webpage guide to a revised numbering scheme for legal forms and other functional documents. I’ll be moving my own forms and Common Form tools over to this new scheme shortly.

Legal Versioning builds directly off my prior work on Reviewers Edition, with a few key changes:

Fellow nerds will see the debt to Semantic Versioning even more clearly now. For those already familiar with Semantic Versioning for software, the “diff” is roughly:

This work fell out of a broader effort to implement the stairstep approach to more widespread incorporation by reference of legal clauses that I outlined in “From Copy to Reference” in the Common Form tools.

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