The Library of standard agreements
Where the Library's standard agreements come from, the licences they are shared under, and which one to start from.
The Library holds standard agreements that their publishers share for anyone to use: Y Combinator, Common Paper, Bonterms, Law Insider's oneNDA, Papertrail and Series Seed. Each is copied word for word from the publisher's own file. The only changes are the ones a person filling in the form would make: your answers in its blanks, the alternatives you choose, its tick boxes, the signatures and dates, and leaving out the notes and rows the publisher says to delete. Magpie does not give legal advice: have a lawyer review an agreement before anyone signs it.
Where the text comes from
Each standard agreement's page in the Library ends with Where the text comes from: the publisher, the title and version of each file it was copied from, a link to the publisher's page, the licence in the publisher's own words, what was changed, and the date it was copied into Magpie. Where a licence asks for the publisher to be credited, every copy carries the publisher's licence line: at the foot of each page, or at the end of the text where the publisher put it.
The licences
| Licence | What it means for you |
|---|---|
| CC BY 4.0 (Common Paper; most Bonterms agreements) | Use and change the text. Keep the publisher's licence line on copies you share. |
| CC BY-ND 4.0 (Y Combinator, oneNDA, Bonterms' marketplace and online terms) | Use and share the text, but do not publish a changed version. Y Combinator asks you not to publish a modified SAFE without asking them first. oneNDA asks that a text with changed terms is not called oneNDA. |
| CC0 (Papertrail, Series Seed; Bonterms' example cover pages) | No conditions: the publisher gave up its rights. |
Make a copy in Documents, on an agreement's More menu, gives you a Document whose wording you can change. The licence still applies to what you do with the copy.
What is in the Library
| Group | Standard agreements |
|---|---|
| Fundraising | Y Combinator's SAFEs and pro rata side letters (SAFEs and side letters in the Library); the Series Seed term sheet, investment agreement and restated certificate of incorporation |
| Confidentiality | Mutual NDAs from Common Paper, Bonterms and oneNDA; Papertrail's short NDA, long one-way NDA and employee NDA |
| Services and consulting | Professional services agreements from Common Paper and Bonterms |
| Software and online services | Common Paper's cloud service agreement (with or without its service level agreement), terms of service, software license agreement, pilot agreement, design partner agreement and AI addendum; Bonterms' Cloud Terms and service level agreement, and its online cloud terms and end user agreement |
| Data protection and privacy | Data processing agreements and business associate agreements (HIPAA) from Common Paper and Bonterms |
| Partnerships and resale | Common Paper's partnership agreement and Bonterms' reseller agreement for marketplaces |
Each row in the Library names its publisher, what it is written for, such as the United States, Delaware or the GDPR, and its licence.
Texts you only download
Some texts have nothing to fill in and no one signs them, such as Bonterms' online cloud terms, which a business posts on its website unchanged. Their page in the Library has Download PDF instead of a start button.
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