The authors present a repository of sample contracts that companies can use in business transactions for the use and development of open source software. Our talk presents the idea of a repository of openly licensed contracts and other legal templates, created primarily for use among and by the open source community. This discussion has circulated for some years within CH Open, reignited by recent publications of nearby communities.

Our talk will go beyond just the idea, but present a prototype of this repository, built on open data best practices, and an open source platform designed for legal work. In our demo, we will guide you through a questionnaire, quickly producing a contract in standard formats. Let's discuss:

• What about liability for the contracts?
• Is it even possible to work with templates, which situations would that be? What do the existing templates cover?
• Why do we think this will improve the resilience and sustainability of development?
• How do we plan to enable collaboration among the legal/technical community?
• Where will A.I. play into our designs?

Please add further questions and your comments into our GitHub discussion

Proxeus Demo

Demo server for contract generator prototype: sepolia.proxeus.org

Screenshots

Just for fun

An ancient legal piecemeal: