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Jan 2, 2018 - Contributor license agreements (a “nice to have” for many corporate-backed open source projects) create a contribution-hostile developer experience,...

Apr 10, 2012 - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) new open source policy is a great start, but should go further

Aug 3, 2014 - Taxpayer funded code is often not open source because government prefers closed platforms, is inexperienced with open source workflows and culture, and creates...

Jun 3, 2015 - What is the appropriate copyright notice for opens source projects? Who is the copyright holder? What year(s) should you put? Do you even need a copyright...

Oct 8, 2014 - A high-level overview to highlight common legal issues government agencies may face when participating in the open source community

Nov 28, 2017 - There’s lots of internet lore around open source licensing. As an attorney and an open source developer, here’s my answers to common open source licensing...

Sep 29, 2014 - Agencies that simply publish code with no intention to foster community involvement, curate community feedback, or accept community contributions find...

Oct 15, 2012 - Open source, at its core, is actually not about code, but about connecting people around a shared vision to encourage collaborative problem solving.

Aug 1, 2016 - Unless absolutely required, avoid custom, modified, or non-standard open source licenses, which will serve as a barrier to downstream use of your code.

Jan 27, 2014 - What we’ve been calling open source, may in fact be something else, especially when we start to use those workflows to collaborate on things beyond code.

Oct 8, 2014 - Government contractors have traditionally been slow to embrace open source software. Here’s why government contractors are embracing open source with...

Nov 23, 2015 - Twenty five microeconomic, macroeconomic, moral, transparency, participatory, and personal motivations why you and your organization should consume, publish,...