EULA + Terms of Service drafting. Single-agreement licensing review. Open-source license audit (catch GPL/AGPL contamination before acquisition diligence). Flat fees so you know what the legals cost before you ship.
Tap a question for an instant, free answer (no email needed), or describe your product and the analyst routes you to the right next step. Answers cover EULA vs Terms of Service, GPL / AGPL copyleft risk, IP indemnification, and how the flat-fee packages fit.
Common software-licensing questions, always free
Three core packages. Pick the one that matches where the software product is in its lifecycle.
Attorney drafting or redline of one software agreement that actually fits your product, not a generic template. Covers desktop, mobile, web, and on-premise as applicable.
Before acquisition diligence, before a security review, or before legal asks "what GPL code is in our codebase," get the audit done. A full codebase and dependency-tree audit is scoped and quoted per matter.
You already have customer agreements, MSAs, and reseller arrangements. Send me the situation and a key agreement, and I send back a written attorney review of the issues, risks, and what to fix first.
Software licensing is mostly about getting the structure right early. Most "licensing problems" are downstream of EULA decisions made years before.
Your current documents and a short product description are all I need to start.
Tap for detail ↻Current EULA / ToS if any, customer agreement, brief description of the product (distribution model, hosting, where users sit), and the dependency list if you want the OSS audit.
Tap to flip back ↻I deliver the drafted agreement, the written attorney review, or the OSS audit memo on a flat fee, or a quote for a deep codebase audit.
Tap for detail ↻Usually within 7 business days for the drafting and the written consultation. A full open-source codebase audit is scoped and quoted per matter.
Tap to flip back ↻You put the work into production, and I stay available for procurement questions.
Tap for detail ↻You wire the EULA into your installer or signup flow, fix the OSS contamination, or send the redline back to your customers. I support enterprise procurement questions for 30 days post-delivery.
Tap to flip back ↻"OSS audit found two AGPL packages we had pulled in unknowingly. Replacing them before our Series B diligence saved us from a deal-killer."Series A SaaS founder avoided deal-killer in due diligence
"EULA Sergei built actually says what we mean. The boilerplate we had been shipping had three contradictions in it."Indie software vendor
"Licensing stack review caught that our reseller agreement granted broader IP rights than our customer agreement had. Painful to fix later, easy to fix before."Enterprise SaaS CEO
I have been a California-licensed business attorney since 2011, with a deep practice in software licensing, IP, and B2B contracts. I run my own legal practice and operate the Terms.Law platform, which itself is a software product with its own licensing stack.
The packages here are flat-fee. You get a real EULA, a real OSS audit, or a real licensing-stack memo, not a "depends on what you find" hourly engagement.
GPL and AGPL are "copyleft" licenses: if you incorporate GPL code into your product and distribute it, you may be required to release your entire combined work under GPL. AGPL extends this to network services. The audit identifies whether and where this risk exists in your codebase.
If you distribute software (desktop installer, mobile app, on-premise), the EULA governs the licensee’s use of the binary itself. ToS governs use of a web service. Most products with a downloadable component need both, drafted to be consistent.
Standard IP indemnity says you’ll defend your customer if a third party claims the software infringes their patent, copyright, or trade secret. The package includes carve-outs for customer modifications, combinations, and unauthorized use, plus a sensible liability cap.
Yes for compliance and contract drafting. License steward / community-governance work (e.g., dual-licensing, contributor agreements) is in scope; OSS-license-related litigation is referred.
I draft a coordinated stack: EULA for the software component, ToS for the SaaS component, with consistent defined terms. Pricing is the EULA package plus discount on the ToS work.
Software copyright registration is straightforward and usually doesn’t require an attorney. I can refer you to a paralegal service or handle it for $575 per work.
For pure SaaS without distributable software.
For software with AI features.
Single-document review starting at $575.
Redline a customer’s licensing markup from $575.
For ongoing software-company legal work.
Written attorney consultation $240. EULA or SaaS terms drafting $575. Open-source codebase audit quoted separately. Pick the one that matches what you need.