Licenses
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We Were Wrong About the GPLs
an unsurprising admission in Conservancy v. Vizio
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Where is the rule that makes vague license rules legal no-ops?
fear, uncertainty, and doubt upon ethical licenses
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On-Cloud Licensing
the wheel of software delivery keeps on turning
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NVIDIA Prismer License
another noncommercial model license, kind of
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Open RAIL-M Is More Unclear Than Scary
Does AI devs want to fight abuse, or just not feel bad about enabling it?
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Big Time Public License 2.0.0
much improved by generous feedback
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MIT for Noncommercial is Broken
use a real noncommercial software license
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GPL Had Better be a Contract
SFC’s Vizio suit brings the right kind of claim
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License Round-Up
listing licenses I’ve contributed to
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Big Time Public License 1.0.0
a FRAND-ly license for software
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Citation Hustle
hooking into academe for fair code credit
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Drafter’s Anxiety
writing new licenses isn’t scary
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Code Credit License 1.0.0
a code-for-credit software license
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Normally Open & Normally Closed
simple templates for restricted terms
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Sharetribe Community Public License 1.0, Line by Line
another everything-but-SaaS license
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Open Source for Business 3e
new edition of an oft-recommended book
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This Mess We’re In
ethics, open source, and free riding
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Skimming Hippocratic License Version 2.0
text and quick thoughts
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Renaming API Copyleft
naming for purpose, not implementation
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API Copyleft 2.0.0-pre.1
bringing the best of Parity to API Copyleft
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git push is the Process
permissionless license development now
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Big Time Public License
a noncommercial, small-biz license with a big-biz fair terms guarantee
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MulanPSL
a new riff on the Apache patent bargain from China
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“BSD with PATENTS” and “BSD-2-Clause Plus Patent” are Not the Same
similar licenses, very different receptions
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Love this License
law brut with ASCII art
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Require Credit For Your Software
a general-purpose legal tool to require credit for open work
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Indie Open Source
developing resource for indie-ready business models
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The Discipline of Stated Purpose
write out the purposes of legal terms in contracts
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Apache-2.0 versus ECL-2.0
a redline (diff) showing substantive changes
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Private Changes in Free Software Copyleft Licenses
Where’s the fifth freedom?
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Unhappy Coincidences
marriages of licensing convenience, and changed circumstances
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The Posterity Public License
a strong-attribution open source license
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MPL-2.0 versus OPL-2.1
a redline (diff) showing changes
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Licence Libre du Québec – Réciprocité versus - Réciprocité forte
a redline (diff) showing changes
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Open Source: Theory of Operation
a short, practical guide to open source software for programmers at work