Subscriber agreement 1.0.1 -> 1.1.1 change - please publish a diff

nneul · July 9, 2016, 12:32am

Publishing the new agreement in a form that doesn’t even lend itself to comparison - for an otherwise completely open project seems a bit backwards.

Would you consider publishing both plaintext versions of the agreement AND an annotated “what has changed” or word-diff of the two versions?

jsha · July 9, 2016, 1:31am

Yep, you’re absolutely right that we should have a nice textual diff for all our policy docs. We wound up defaulting to Word (and exported PDFs) when starting out, because that’s usually the best way to collaborate on documents with lawyers. But of course it’s not the best way to collaborate with the public.

I think the team is pretty aligned on moving towards nice, diffable, open formats for our policy docs in the future. For now, Word is all we’ve got. But Kenn White did an awesome thing and extracted the text to do a public diff:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/kennwhite/9541c8f37ec2994352c4554ca2afeece/revisions

agreement.txt

Version 1.1.1
August 1, 2016
Page 1 of 7
LET’S ENCRYPT
SUBSCRIBER AGREEMENT
This Subscriber Agreement (“Agreement”) is a legally binding contract between you and, if applicable,
the company, organization or other entity on behalf of which you are acting (collectively, “You” or
“Your”) and Internet Security Research Group (“ISRG,” “We,” or “Our”) regarding Your and Our
rights and duties relating to Your acquisition and use of SSL/TLS digital certificates issued by ISRG. If
you are acting on behalf of a company, organization or other entity, You represent that you have the

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Bebef · July 9, 2016, 7:06am

Word does diff though. At least when using it with e.g. Tortoise SVN. Not sure how ‘extractable’ the result is though.

josh · July 11, 2016, 4:32am

Here’s the diff in MS Word form, “track changes” from v1.01. to v1.1.1:

http://letsencrypt.org/documents/LE-SA-v1.0.1-v1.1.1-diff.docx

As Jacob said, this is in Word because it’s how we collaborate with our attorneys. We may move to something textual (markdown) on github at some point.

system · August 10, 2016, 4:32am

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