Jacob Kaplan-Moss

24 ways: Contract Killer

Contracts for humans, not for lawyers.

(consulting, contract, contracts, freelance, legal, work)

Donation Acknowlegement Letters

(djangofoundation, foundations, legal, nonprofits, opensource)

Trademark Policy Pointers | FLOSS Foundations

(legal, opensource, policy, trademark)

Maintaining Permissive-Licensed Files in a GPL-Licensed Project: Guidelines for Developers - Software Freedom Law Center

Important guidlines from the SFLC on how to properly relicense permissively-licensed (i.e. BSD/MIT) code. Good to see that something positive came out of the whole Atheros driver kerfuffle.

(bsd, copyright, development, gpl, law, legal, licenses, mit, opensource, software)

lj19: Derivative Works

The best summary of what constitutes a “derivative work” in open source. It's more complex than it needs to be :(

(copyright, law, legal, licenses, opensource, programming)

List of legal research links at Groklaw

Great list of links for doing legal research online.

(legal, links, research)