Open Law

Organisation

Governance

Open Law specifications and reference implementations are maintained in public repositories under Apache-2.0.

Principles

  • Vendor-neutral standards separate from commercial products
  • Client sovereignty for client-facing software access
  • Mandatory client-visible data boundaries
  • Self-attested conformance with published test suites

Change process

Normative changes are proposed and reviewed in the relevant Open Law GitHub repositories. Implementers should track releases of the specification, Directory, DCR, and API packages.

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