Common Paper standard agreements have been downloaded more than 40,000 times and used to close millions of dollars in deals. They are created and maintained by a committee of expert attorneys and released for free under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 License.
Industry Standard Tools
A community register of the products that became the default in their profession.
7 Startup Agreements That Save Companies (and Friendships) | Signus
Founder blowups and cap-table surprises are mostly preventable. A focused seven-document set—Founders Agreement, SAFE (Post-Money), Mutual NDA, Independent Contractor Agreement, Advisory Agreement, Consulting Agreement, and PIIA—closes the early gaps that orphan IP, muddle equity, and stall deals. Right-size what you send; use the subset that fits the moment. Clarity beats memory.
Welcome to MUD Standards | MUD Standards
This page serves as a central point of contact for all documents relating to MUD standards.
standards.group
standards.group — a forge for specs. Write, version, and publish specifications from your own AT Protocol account.
Three essential contracts that protect a startup’s intellectual property – Fisher Hudson Brown Horton
Idaho and California startups should be aware of which types of contracts are essential to protect their intellectual property.
The Community Corrosive Effects of CLAs | James Bottomley's random Pages
As one of the kernel DCO advocates, I’ve written many times about using the DCO instead of a CLA for copyright and patent contributions under open source licences. In spite of my obvious biases, I’ll try to give a factual overview of the cases for the DCO and CLA system. First, it should be noted that both the DCO and any CLA are types of Contribution Agreements (a set of terms by which contributors are agreeing to be bound). It should also be acknowledged that the DCO is a far more recent invention than CLAs. The DCO was first pioneered by the Linux kernel in 2004 (having been designed by Diane Peters, then of OSDL) and was subsequently adopted by a broad range of open source projects. However, in legal terms, the DCO is much less well understood than a standard CLA type agreement between the contributor and some entity, which is largely the reason you find a number of lawyers still advocating for the use of CLAs in various open source projects: because they’d like to stick with something that has more miles on it, or because they’re invested in the older model of community, largely pioneered by Apache. The biggest problem today is that the operation of most CLAs is asymmetrical: they take from the contributor more rights than the open source code actually needs, so lets begin with a summary of each type of Contribution Agreement.
Standard Paper — Independent writing, beautifully read
Discover articles from across the atmosphere, gathered in one place for focused reading.
Standard Paper — Independent writing, beautifully read
Discover articles from across the atmosphere, gathered in one place for focused reading.
The importance of open standard federation for chat
A genuine open standard is the single most important part of ensuring digitally sovereign communications between multiple separate organisations.
The intellectual property rights imperative of single-vendor open source
I guess everybody knows it but nobody ever named it, as far as I know, so I’m doing it here: The Intellectual Property Rights Imperative of Single-Vendor Commercial Open Source Always act in …
Publishing · Standard Reader
Wire a personal site's own site.standard.* records by hand.
standard.shop is expensive expensive but standard.store is only expensive. been poking at a pilot here tangled.org/lgtm.shop/commerce
lgtm.shop/commerce
tangled.orgNew: Bilateral delegations as mutually consenting social contracts
Capability Trees: A Protocol-Level Extension of Object Capabilities, Draft 4
leaflet.pub
