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This chapter gives an overview of ways that a FOSS organization can limit their individual liability, primarily through various means of incorporation. It serves as a guide to the various options available and clairifies some general (but not case specific) requirements to maintain a nonprofit status...

Last week I talked about picking an appropriate TaskWarrior wrapper for my task_time project. A rundown of the options are taskw (Python, GPL, low on documentation, durations not implemented yet), tasklib (Python, BSD, good documentation, durations not implemented, does not read in users .taskrc)...

So as it turns out there were 3 main libraries written to interact with the TaskWarrior database (I think there is also a Perl and maybe a PHP wrapper as well, but I couldn’t find them again and let’s face it: I’m not interested in using either of those languages anyways).

Python: taskw, GPL v3

Karen’s talk covers a lot of the same ground as the chapter in FOSS Legal Primer that I reviewed previously, but does so in a way that motivates, persuades, and explains with consistent use of examples, which I found much more persuasive and engaging.

Who: Karen Sandler (Executive Director of...

Common Trademark Issues gives an overview of how trademark law in the US works and what that means to you as a FOSS developer. It explains the registration process, how you can lose your registration, and how to handle licensing agreements and enforcement.

Who:,

• Richard Fontana

Repo: dropofwill/task_time

This is a plan for a project that will act as a plugin for the application Taskwarrior that allows the users to use task to keep track of their time involved with tasks. I chose task_time as the name because the original program is run with the task command and in Ruby...

This is a review of Chapter 4 of the SFLC Legal Primer, Patent Defense for FOSS Developers, inside it describes the anatomy of a patent, how to deal with claims brought against you, and why you, as a FOSS developer, should not bother with patenting your software, even as a protective measure.

Anatomy...

I’ve written a lot of Ruby code over the years from web applications, to rack frameworks, to rake tasks, even packaged a few up as gems, but one thing I’ve never done is write a command line tool directly in ruby. This post just sums up my initial foray into making Ruby cli tools, as usual with Ruby...