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README.md

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 To build the whitepaper from LaTeX source, you will need to use
 [OTS DocTools](https://code.librehq.com/ots/ots-doctools).
+
+Just kidding -- the whitepaper doesn't exist yet.  Instead, we have
+this free-form [notes file](notes.md).  For now, that's the right
+landing place for contributions.

notes.md

+This file contains free-form notes.  Anyone working on this project,
+please feel free to reformat this (including to something other than
+Markdown) if you want.
+
+# Examples
+
+Note that some of these examples are still just pointers that will
+need followup.
+
+* The license now named the "Boostrap Open Source License" (BOSL) was
+  formerly known as the "Transitive Grace Period Public Licence"
+  (TGPPL).  
+
+  The 2020 blog post [Introducing BOSL, a radically new type of
+  open-source
+  license](https://electriccoin.co/blog/introducing-tgppl-a-radically-new-type-of-open-source-license/)
+  discusses the license and gives some examples of its use.
+
+  An earlier (2010) writeup about TGPPL from Ted T'so is
+  [The Transitive Grace Period Public Licence: good ideas come
+  around…](https://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2010/01/20/the-transitive-grace-period-public-licence-good-ideas-come-around/).
+
+  [Tahoe-LAFS](https://github.com/tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs) seems to have
+  a somewhat complicated (though still open source) licensing
+  situation, but it appears to be also published under the TGPPL?
+
+  And Zooko might be using BOSL or TGPPL for other things as well.
+  (See also https://github.com/zooko/tgppl -- note that Richard
+  Fontana is in the commit history there.)
+
+* Aladdin Ghostscript
+
+* Sleepycat and BerkeleyDB?
+
+* [Sentry](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/blob/master/LICENSE)
+  (Business Source License (BUSL)).
+
+* Codecov (also from Sentry) is also BUSL.
+
+  See https://blog.sentry.io/lets-talk-about-open-source/.
+
+* The post [Why Open Source
+  Matters](https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2023/08/03/why-opensource-matters/)
+  from RedMonk (Aug 2023) points to some other examples.  (Also, it's
+  a really good post, in Karl's opinion, not that anyone asked him,
+  but hey, if you're editing the notes file then you get to insert
+  your opinions.)
+
+* Hashicorp and BUSL
+  - https://www.hashicorp.com/license-faq#Why-is-HashiCorp-making-this-change
+  - https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-adopts-business-source-license
+
+# Sources / Acknowledgements
+
+* Simon Phipps
+* Stefano Maffulli
+* Nick Vidal
+
+# People to contact as we're gathering examples
+
+If your name should be on the list below but isn't, please [let us
+know](https://code.librehq.com/ots/dosp-research/-/issues/new)!
+
+* Deb Bryant
+* Danese Cooper
+* Your Name Here...