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

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Software

  1. PolyForm Noncommercial 2.0.0-pre.3

    steps toward 2.0.0

  2. PolyForm Noncommercial 2.0.0-pre.2

    shorter, better noncommercial license terms for software

  3. PolyForm Noncommercial 2.0.0-pre.1

    shorter, better noncommercial license terms for software

  4. Pick-From-a-List Tools

    my favorite heretical UNIX programs

  5. PolyForm Countdown

    a simple, solid form for changing your license later

  6. Toward PolyForm Shield Version 2

    streamline and revise for easier reading

  7. A Short, Simple Template for Scheduled Relicensing

    decouple license rules from how we relax them

  8. Amazon Has a Restricted License, Too

    this is not a bad thing

  9. HashiCorp’s New Licensing

    a new benchmark for presenting license change

  10. On-Cloud Licensing

    the wheel of software delivery keeps on turning

  11. Putting Software in the Public Domain

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

  12. New Microsoft Word Comments Weirdness

    a gotcha for legal power users

  13. Big Time Public License 2.0.0

    much improved by generous feedback

  14. MIT for Noncommercial is Broken

    use a real noncommercial software license

  15. Standardize Commercial Software Licensing

    announcing PolyForm Commercial, with a call for help

  16. License Round-Up

    listing licenses I’ve contributed to

  17. Big Time Public License 1.0.0

    a FRAND-ly license for software

  18. Speedier Git for Text File Tracking

    streamlining for small, fast commits to personal records

  19. PolyForm Defensive is Now PolyForm Shield

    feedback strikes again

  20. Acceptable Use

    different delivery, same rules

  21. Normally Open & Normally Closed

    simple templates for restricted terms

  22. PolyForm Noncompete Licenses

    two new, long-awaited forms

  23. Noncompete By Two Other Names

    Why are the last PolyForm licenses taking so long?

  24. Not Not Political

    if software matters, it’s already political

  25. Patent Potato

    the game that never ends

  26. Renaming API Copyleft

    naming for purpose, not implementation

  27. API Copyleft 2.0.0-pre.1

    bringing the best of Parity to API Copyleft

  28. git push is the Process

    permissionless license development now

  29. Big Time Public License

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

  30. Heather Meeker on Patent Risk Allocation

    unique compilation of arguments and dynamics

  31. Operating Environment

    essential industry background for reading open software licenses

  32. PolyForm Project

    simple, standard, plain-language software licenses

  33. Critique This License

    developing a standard paid-software license

  34. Proseline

    peer to peer prose editing

  35. RxNDA.com

    breaking the NDA logjam

  36. What Enumeration Means

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

  37. Reproduction of Hierarchy

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

  38. Common Form

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