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Harvey Birdman Rule
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Hindering Backchannels Rule
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A nontrivial number of interesting collaborative FLOSS legal endeavors
have been operated in a relatively nontransparent and methodologically
suboptimal manner. The following norms of project participation are
designed to discourage this tendency. These norms shall be known
informally as the "Harvey Birdman Rule":
informally as the "Hindering Backchannels Rule":
1. Contributions in the form of word-processing documents (even if
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quoted earlier mailing list postings by others are strongly
discouraged.
5. Criticisms of, or proposed changes to, the Harvey Birdman Rule
5. Criticisms of, or proposed changes to, the Hindering Backchannels Rule
are welcome, though such criticisms or proposals must themselves
comply with the Harvey Birdman Rule as it exists at the time the
comply with the Hindering Backchannels Rule as it exists at the time the
criticism or proposal is made.
[Chatham House Rule]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule