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Notes

• Do not be afraid of lawyers. Especially if nobody has even talked to them yet. Lawyers do not like to lose cases, so will not push a losing agenda. Yet they also must do what their client asks, so lawyers looking into a concern, or even sending nastygrams... those are meaningless actions. It only becomes meaningful if and when if their lawyers indicate they believe they really have a case, or if your own lawyer believes they have a case. Everything before that is posturing and bullying. If I were in the same situation as OP, I'd state that my intent was positive, ask to be informed of the results of discussions with attorneys, and wish them to have a nice day. Admit no wrong, make no apologies, ignore irrelevant statements (in particular personal attacks), and just let it slide until they take a real action of some kind. Once they do take an action, then it might be appropriate to do what they want. But seriously... stop letting people be bullies.

Links

• Ask HN: My company wants my side project. What can I do?
• Avodocs - Free legal documents for startups.
• Ask HN: What is the point of “© 2020 CompanyName” in website footers? (2020)
• iubenda - Compliance Solutions for Websites, Apps and Organizations.
• A mathematical formulation of the tax code? (2019) (Lobsters)
• Starting a physical product company? You’re gonna need a lawyer (2020) (HN)
• Notarize - Legally Notarize Your Documents Online.
• What Color are your bits? (2004)
• Software licensing and my opposition to copyleft (2020) (Lobsters) (HN)
• Catala - DSL designed for deriving implementations from legislative texts. (Web) (HN) (HN)
• judyrecords - Full text search on 400M US court cases. (HN) (HN)
• Legal Concepts for Founders
• CS50 for Lawyers
• Terms of Service; Didn’t Read (HN) (Edit) (Code)
• L4: Domain Specific Languages for Computational Law
• Legalese - Software is eating law. (GitHub)
• GPT-3, Esq? Evaluating AI Legal Summaries (HN)
• Templating for Lawyers (2021) (HN)
• Terms & Privacy - Every - Written in plain language by lawyer.
• Types of Legal Argument (2021) (HN)
• Terms and Conditions Game (HN)
• Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project (2021) (HN) (Reddit)
• Ask HN: I was hit with a patent troll lawsuit, how do I deal with it? (2021)
• GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright (2021) (Lobsters) (HN)
• Day in my Life as a Corporate Lawyer (2021)
• The Diversity of International Law (2009)
• Open Terms Archive - Follow changes to terms of service. (HN)
• Was Google Earth Stolen? (2021) (HN)
• Research Threats: Legal Threats Against Security Researchers (Web)
• Themis Contract - Command line-based tool to help with legal contracting.
• Ask HN: Why is Docusign a $50B company? (2021)
• Propylon - Creating innovative software solutions to draft, manage, and understand legal content. (GitHub)
• Understanding Intellectual Property: A Guide for Artists (2013)
• How the Next Layer of the Internet is Going to be Standardized (2021)
• Magistrate - Plain text legal contracts for developers.
• Как не надо давать показания
• Openlaws.com - Legal Search Engine.
• court-scraper - Scrapers for U.S. county court sites.
• Justice Stevens reads the fine print (2022) (HN)
• Technical FAQ on the Digital Markets Act (2022)
• Discussion | Law and Pop Culture: Better Call Saul (2017)