Licenses
04 April 2020
Sharetribe Community Public License 1.0, Line by Line
another everything-but-SaaS license
28 March 2020
Open Source for Business 3e
new edition of an oft-recommended book
27 February 2020
This Mess We’re In
ethics, open source, and free riding
22 February 2020
Skimming Hippocratic License Version 2.0
text and quick thoughts
13 January 2020
Renaming API Copyleft
naming for purpose, not implementation
07 January 2020
API Copyleft 2.0.0-pre.1
bringing the best of Parity to API Copyleft
07 December 2019
git push is the Process
permissionless license development now
06 December 2019
Big Time Public License
a noncommercial, small-biz license with a big-biz fair terms guarantee
10 November 2019
MulanPSL
a new riff on the Apache patent bargain from China
07 November 2019
“BSD with PATENTS” and “BSD-2-Clause Plus Patent” are Not the Same
similar licenses, very different receptions
06 November 2019
Love this License
law brut with ASCII art
15 August 2019
Require Credit For Your Software
a general-purpose legal tool to require credit for open work
25 February 2019
Indie Open Source
developing resource for indie-ready business models
10 January 2019
The Discipline of Stated Purpose
write out the purposes of legal terms in contracts
18 December 2018
Apache-2.0 versus ECL-2.0
a redline (diff) showing substantive changes
17 September 2018
Private Changes in Free Software Copyleft Licenses
Where’s the fifth freedom?
28 August 2018
Unhappy Coincidences
marriages of licensing convenience, and changed circumstances
12 July 2018
The Posterity Public License
a strong-attribution open source license
15 January 2018
MPL-2.0 versus OPL-2.1
a redline (diff) showing changes
09 January 2018
Licence Libre du Québec – Réciprocité versus - Réciprocité forte
a redline (diff) showing changes
26 May 2017
Open Source: Theory of Operation
a short, practical guide to open source software for programmers at work