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Re:Show HN: Legalfile – A proposal for software legal terms ... by Sirikon on Sunday March 04, 2018 @07:29PM (#16517767)
"@Sirikon's idea could work if each phrase in his taxonomy (e.g., "cannot" and "hold-liable") were mapped to standardized, more-detailed language, akin to a macro."

Maybe a good first step could be the definition of this language if it doesn't exist yet.

Re:Show HN: Legalfile – A proposal for software legal terms ... by dctoedt on Monday March 05, 2018 @11:00AM (#16521874)
For several years I've been playing around with something like that as a side project — see http://www.CommonDraft.org (which isn't especially pretty; I'm in the middle of refactoring it to make it more Lego-like).