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Archive for February 8th, 2005

Legal Code: Heading and Disclaimer

Tuesday, February 8th, 2005

The Draft South African Legal Code is headed:
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Draft ZA 2.0
Although a South African 1.0 licence has not been released, the legal code for the first licence is based on the 2.0 version of the Universal Licenceand its Legal Code . To show that we have followed the 2.0 version of the universal licence […]

Open Source Drafting

Tuesday, February 8th, 2005

Lawyers especially common law lawyers have a great respect for precedent and not only do courts follow precedent but lawyers have traditionally used precedents in drafting legal documents. These tend to get handed down from one lawyer to another, being modified all the while, and tested in courts from time to time.
Thus most legal documents […]