<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Lex Pan Law]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lex Pan Law]]></description><link>https://www.lexpan.law/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 03:30:27 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.lexpan.law/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Everything That Rises Might Converge]]></title><description><![CDATA[We may now be living in a golden age of software copyright jurisprudence. Perhaps not in eventual outcomes – the Supreme Court’s decision...]]></description><link>https://www.lexpan.law/post/everything-that-rises-might-converge</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64544c1a52adfe4085152910</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2023 00:25:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/70ec46_4f393ea3eb944eb98667e316cea2f052~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_867,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>McCoy Smith</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[License Grammaticism]]></title><description><![CDATA[Back in the days of my early education (and probably most people of my generation who went through the U.S. education system), English...]]></description><link>https://www.lexpan.law/post/license-grammaticism</link><guid isPermaLink="false">62609d3f46bdd683d12f1088</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2022 00:10:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/70ec46_a7c383d0bc6f40c09c41b0a347a143d6~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_777,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>McCoy Smith</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[When You Have to Shoot – Shoot. Don’t Talk.]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you’ve spent any amount of time in the world of Free &#38; Open Source Software (FOSS) – or the world of “free and open source” anything –...]]></description><link>https://www.lexpan.law/post/when-you-have-to-shoot-shoot-don-t-talk</link><guid isPermaLink="false">62473bb4d9b048487a3f83e4</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2022 18:02:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/70ec46_4d6d0d4b298849dfb3ac5736471b26e2~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_843,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>McCoy Smith</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Supporting OSI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lex Pan Law this year became a supporting partner of the Open Source Initiative. Most of you who work in the Free &#38; Open Source Software...]]></description><link>https://www.lexpan.law/post/supporting-osi</link><guid isPermaLink="false">61e9b04ffe1f740016561a06</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2022 19:13:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/70ec46_dea864f36f0d4ae98883a6a1a5c01066~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_980,h_980,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>McCoy Smith</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reclaiming the Public Domain: Patent Edition]]></title><description><![CDATA[The potential negative impact of patents against free and open source software (FOSS) has been an expressed concern since at least the...]]></description><link>https://www.lexpan.law/post/reclaiming-the-public-domain-patent-edition</link><guid isPermaLink="false">605421ebd46778002b53e83b</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2021 04:01:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/70ec46_e16a12fb974d4ec383c76bd2b0c63a10~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>McCoy Smith</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oracle/Google]]></title><description><![CDATA[For those who weren't paying attention (and it seems like almost anyone working in tech law was), oral arguments were held today in the...]]></description><link>https://www.lexpan.law/post/oracle-google</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f7df0815624e900175be819</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2020 17:33:35 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>McCoy Smith</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[GPLv3's "Installation Information" Requirement]]></title><description><![CDATA[During the drafting process of GPLv3, one of the additional requirements added over GPLv2 was the "Installation Information" requirement...]]></description><link>https://www.lexpan.law/post/gplv3-s-installation-information-requirement</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f5bb1c057bd7400175bba4d</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2020 17:29:16 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>McCoy Smith</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extreme Copyleft, Redux]]></title><description><![CDATA[At Copyleft Conf 2019, I did a presentation under the provocative title "Extreme Copyleft, Boon or Bane?" The main point of the...]]></description><link>https://www.lexpan.law/post/extreme-copyleft-redux</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f3eed7e95fac40017857794</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2020 22:04:34 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>McCoy Smith</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[License Proliferation (And the OSD?) Revisited]]></title><description><![CDATA[On the USA’s Independence Day, 2020, the Open Source Initiative posted an announcement about the formation of at least one new committee...]]></description><link>https://www.lexpan.law/post/license-proliferation-and-the-osd-revisited</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f02a26a2bb7e6001752644c</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2020 04:08:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a27d24_7b29a49aea354660a567574b89fb1b34~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_401,h_700,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>McCoy Smith</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Copyleftism]]></title><description><![CDATA[Almost a year ago, at the inaugural CopyleftConf in Brussels (the day after FOSDEM), I did a presentation with the somewhat provocative...]]></description><link>https://www.lexpan.law/post/copyleftism</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e138fca1411310017b0fcbe</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2020 20:25:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a27d24_ad5f33e86214422dba3e7bfa3cf7a7c0~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_577,h_588,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>McCoy Smith</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hello, World!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just a short post to launch the firm's periodic musing on various developments in the intersection of technology and law. 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