Practice Open source & IP
Practice area 05
Open source & IP
License strategy for your repos, weights, and derivatives. Contributor agreements that scale past the first five contributors.
- OSS strategy
- CLA / DCO
- Model weights license
- Trademark
Problems we solve
- You want the community upside of open source without giving up commercial optionality.
- You are publishing weights and do not know how to license them defensibly.
- You have contributions from twenty developers and no CLA or DCO in place.
What you get
- License selection memo for code, weights, datasets, and documentation.
- Contributor License Agreement or DCO workflow, wired into your PR process.
- Weight and derivative license drafted for your specific model type.
- Trademark filing strategy for name, wordmark, and logo.
- Notice, attribution, and third-party license inventory.
What we will not do
- We do not push copyleft or permissive licenses for ideological reasons; we choose what fits.
- We do not gate contributors behind CLAs so onerous they suppress contributions.
How this fits with other practice areas
Most engagements combine two or three practice areas. This one commonly pairs with Formation & fundraising and Privacy & compliance. When you send an intake, we tell you which combination fits and price the scope in writing before you sign anything.