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BACKGROUND.md

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-Background
-==========
-
-The impetus to create the Harvey Birdman Rule stemmed from three formative
-experiences: the quasi-public phase of the GPLv3 drafting process
-(January 2006--June 2007); the Project Harmony deliberations
-(ca. 2010-2011); and the ongoing activities of the European Legal
-Network run by Free Software Foundation Europe (ca 2007--present).
-
-HBR is a critique of the Chatham House Rule, which governed Project
-Harmony for most of its life and has officially governed the
-activities of ELN since 2008, if not inception.
-
-The name "Harvey Birdman Rule" was coined by Richard Fontana in an IRC
-channel conversation with Bradley Kuhn and others in (IIRC) 2012. The
-name is a reference to *Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law*. At least two
-post-hoc explanations for the naming have been given, but the real
-reason is a quasi-inside joke between Fontana and Kuhn, which Kuhn has
-probably forgotten and which wasn't really all that funny to begin
-with.
-

HBR.md

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-Harvey Birdman Rule
-===================
+Hindering Backchannels Rule
+===========================
 
 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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      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
+     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.
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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

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README.md

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-hbr
+HBR
 ===
 
-Harvey Birdman Rule (see: HBR.md)
+Hindering Backchannels Rule (see: HBR.md)
+
+## Historical Note
+
+HBR was formerly known (or expanded) as the 'Harvey Birdman Rule'.