Summary: How lawyers can adopt the workflows, tools, and philosophies of open source to make their legal practice more remote-friendly
Inspired by the post 15 rules for communicating at GitHub from a few years back, I spoke with Sam Glover from the Lawyerist podcast on how lawyers can adopt the workflows, tools, and philosophies of open source to make their legal practice more remote-friendly.
You can listen on iTunes or visit the podcast episode directly on Legal Talk Network.
To learn more about how GitHub uses GitHub for non-code things like legal and HR, this Fast Company article is a great read.
When I joined GitHub in 2013, I found a company that had rethought how work happens. Thirteen years later, those lessons still shape how I work.
Unless absolutely required, avoid custom, modified, or non-standard open source licenses, which will serve as a barrier to downstream use of your code.
CLAs create a hostile developer experience, require significant overhead, and are usually unnecessary given modern open source norms.
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