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+Harvey Birdman Rule
+===================
+
+A nontrivial number of interesting collaborative FLOSS legal endeavors
+have been operated in a relatively nontransparent and methodologically
+suboptimal manner. This project aims to be different, and this
+therefore necessitates the following norms of participation, which
+shall be known informally as the 'Harvey Birdman Rule':
+
+  1. Contributions in the form of word-processing documents (even if
+     in a free/open standard format), "redlined" or otherwise, are
+     unacceptable and will be deleted immediately.
+
+  2. No private mailing lists (including but not limited to those
+     governed by the so-called Chatham House Rule) will be used by
+     this project.  Public archiving of mailing lists used by this
+     project is strongly encouraged; however, archives are not
+     mandatory and partial archiving is permitted.
+
+  3. Except in extraordinary cases, private telephone calls, private
+     teleconferences, private in-person meetings, and private email
+     communications shall not be used to discuss *substantive*
+     development of this project.  Should such private communications
+     nevertheless occur, participants in such communications are
+     expected to publish summaries of any relevant discussions in a
+     manner or medium accessible to the general net public.
+
+  4. Contributing by informal suggestions or proposals made in a
+     posting to the project mailing list is welcome. However, any such
+     suggestions or proposals that are made in the form of top-posted
+     replies to quoted earlier mailing list postings by others are
+     unacceptable and therefore shall be ignored.
+
+  5. Criticisms of, or proposed changes to, the Harvey Birdman Rule
+     are welcome, though such criticisms or proposals must themselves
+     comply with the Harvey Birdman Rule as it exists at the time the
+     criticism or proposal is made.
+
+