Updating Contract Language for the 21st Century
Holly Towle wrote an excellent article on the boilerplate contract language issues that might now exist in your contract language. Read the article… consider the issues… review your templates. Make some changes. Of course, you can always just call me and I’d be happy to review your contracts for you. The Licensing Handbook Blog is [...]
GPL, WordPress and Themes
I saw an intriguing post the other day by Jennifer Schiffer on WordPress, themes and the GPL. She linked to a video of Matt Mullenweg (one of WordPress’ lead developers) who was talking about why WordPress was a GPL product (short answer: they didn’t really have a choice because WP is based on b2, which [...]
Who can audit?
I posted the question on Twitter the other day: “How does the SPA have the authority to audit software license use? In thousands of licenses I’ve never given them that right.” I was looking for some insight that I might have missed. In the world of contracts, your license actually will specifically state who has [...]
Software Licensing Handbook now available as an eBook
I know, I know… welcome to the 20th Century, Jeff. I was waiting for my publishing “house”, Lulu, to allow for an eBook edition, and we’ve finally got it. So, if you have been waiting for the eBook version of the Software Licensing Handbook (I’m matching Amazon’s price for the paper version, so get it [...]
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