In Light Your Taper, we talked about freely sharing our ideas and plans. Beyond writing publicly about them, there’s another important component to sharing freely: letting others use and build on your work.

Applying these principles to our blog, we’ve chosen to license our writings under the Creative Commons Attribution License. In essence, the licence means anyone can use our blog content for any purpose — commercial or non-commercial — so long as they give us credit.

This choice of a very permissive licence helps us share what LexPublica is working on, as widely as possible. Spreading the word about LexPublica is valuable to us, increasing our visibility and helping us find collaborators. The permissive licensing is also intended to enable others to leverage this content, adapt to their own purposes, and re-publish it.

In a future post, we’ll write about our thinking on the choice of licensing for LexPublica’s free contract templates and free information on how to use those templates. Quick preview: we’re inclined to use the same Creative Commons Attribution License. We’d love to hear from you if you have any views or comments on that.