A long, long time ago a mortgage lawyer started to write her blog, just to get familiar with several crazy newfangled things called computers and the internet by using them to do something she liked, writing. So she started writing a blog using something called Wordpress [https://wordpress.com]. The…
Karen Sandler [https://twitter.com/o0karen0o] the cyborg lawyer (quite literally; she has a defibrillator in her heart) has always been a source of inspiration to me. Unfortunate me has missed three invaluable opportunities to meet her in person. But I never miss a chance to see if I can…
Today we will be discussing the mistakes I did with my blog posts. I started (seriously) writing blogs a year back. A few of my posts got a pretty nice response. The praise put me in seventh heaven. I thought I was a fairly good blogger.But after almost a…
Habeas data, my data my right, is the ethos of the right to be a free and fulfilling individual. It offers the individual to be him/herself without being monitored. In The United States, there are several salvos to protect and further the concept. The First Amendment The First Amendment…
My morning starts with the quick look at twitter. Yesterday some tweets drew my attention - The Internet Archive over at http://web.archive.org has been blocked in India. There was a long thread going on, and people were asking, updating thoughts and opinions on the matter. Ok, this…
I recently conducted a session on “Software Licensing: The Basic Concepts.” Just after I mentioned the term, “license”, questions flooded in. One of those was quite interesting, “How do we create a copyright license?” I couldn’t get to it in time that day, so I thought, why not answer…
My life can be divided into major two parts. Life before knowing “Libre Office” and after. No, I won’t go on about how good the software is (which it is; fairly good). I was fascinated by the name, the meaning. Libre, means “free, at liberty.” The name suggested a…
While I was working on my project on software licensing, I noticed that there are several packages in PyPI [https://pypi.python.org/pypi] which do not have a requirements.txt file (the file mentioning the dependencies). License files, though not a rare species but surely an endangered one in…