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