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All content by Kyle E. Mitchell, who is not your lawyer.

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Software

  1. On-Cloud Licensing

    the wheel of software delivery keeps on turning

  2. Putting Software in the Public Domain

    if you want “waive” or “dedicate”, you should probably just “license”

  3. New Microsoft Word Comments Weirdness

    a gotcha for legal power users

  4. Big Time Public License 2.0.0

    much improved by generous feedback

  5. MIT for Noncommercial is Broken

    use a real noncommercial software license

  6. Standardize Commercial Software Licensing

    announcing PolyForm Commercial, with a call for help

  7. License Round-Up

    listing licenses I’ve contributed to

  8. Big Time Public License 1.0.0

    a FRAND-ly license for software

  9. Speedier Git for Text File Tracking

    streamlining for small, fast commits to personal records

  10. PolyForm Defensive is Now PolyForm Shield

    feedback strikes again

  11. Acceptable Use

    different delivery, same rules

  12. Normally Open & Normally Closed

    simple templates for restricted terms

  13. PolyForm Noncompete Licenses

    two new, long-awaited forms

  14. Noncompete By Two Other Names

    Why are the last PolyForm licenses taking so long?

  15. Not Not Political

    if software matters, it’s already political

  16. Patent Potato

    the game that never ends

  17. Renaming API Copyleft

    naming for purpose, not implementation

  18. API Copyleft 2.0.0-pre.1

    bringing the best of Parity to API Copyleft

  19. git push is the Process

    permissionless license development now

  20. Big Time Public License

    a noncommercial, small-biz license with a big-biz fair terms guarantee

  21. PolyForm 1.0.0

    standard noncommercial software licenses at last

  22. Heather Meeker on Patent Risk Allocation

    unique compilation of arguments and dynamics

  23. Operating Environment

    essential industry background for reading open software licenses

  24. PolyForm Project

    simple, standard, plain-language software licenses

  25. Critique This License

    developing a standard paid-software license

  26. Proseline

    peer to peer prose editing

  27. RxNDA.com

    breaking the NDA logjam

  28. What Enumeration Means

    Enumeration is an essential contract drafting tool. Don’t disclaim it!

  29. Reproduction of Hierarchy

    Markdown isn’t great for contracts. HTML5 is better.

  30. Common Form

    Composable, verifiable, shareable form contracts for the modern practice of law