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I’ve just launched toolbox.commonform.org, a quick, convenient way to use various Common Form contract text analysis and modification tools on snippets of legal text.

A good sans-serif font for contract proposals in Microsoft Word should: read easily include all the characters commonly used in contracts, including legal symbols like ‘§’ and ‘¶’ work on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android devices with Microsoft Word, no inst…

Last year, Prusa Research, a Czechia-based manufacturer of 3D printers, drafted and adopted a new license for parts of its CORE line of not-entirely-open products, meant to take on the increasingly dominant and increasingly restrictive Bambu Lab.

Open Core Ventures, an open-focused venture capital firm, has published a new source-available license.

With many-megapixel cameras in our pockets and networks so fast that streaming hiccups piss off pre-teens, it’s easy to forget how frail digital imagery used to be.

Here is the latest draft of the PolyForm Noncommercial license for software, with the edits that got left out of the draft I blogged yesterday.

Heather Meeker and I have long wanted to do new version 2s of the PolyForm licenses, to make them even shorter and easier to read.

If you have access to Wired Magazine and teach or think about contracts, I’d strongly recommend “The Baby Died.

Trying to bat down the White House’s “association” between acetaminophen and autism with “correlation does not imply causation” is losing the rematch the way you lost the title.

You’ve hired a lawyer to write a contract for you.