Pith Number

pith:MOBQOW7Q

pith:2024:MOBQOW7QUXKCL44XH47BHI55NQ

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"The Law Doesn't Work Like a Computer": Exploring Software Licensing Issues Faced by Legal Practitioners

Denys Poshyvanyk, Laura A. Heymann, Nathan Wintersgill, Oscar Chaparro, Trevor Stalnaker

arxiv:2403.14927 v1 · 2024-03-22 · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MOBQOW7QUXKCL44XH47BHI55NQ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T07:59:27.836337Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6383075bf0a5d425f3973f3e13a3bd6c1408ddff12a0924aa1d3522b03308844

Aliases

arxiv: 2403.14927 · arxiv_version: 2403.14927v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2403.14927 · pith_short_12: MOBQOW7QUXKC · pith_short_16: MOBQOW7QUXKCL44X · pith_short_8: MOBQOW7Q

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MOBQOW7QUXKCL44XH47BHI55NQ \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 6383075bf0a5d425f3973f3e13a3bd6c1408ddff12a0924aa1d3522b03308844

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "541c982910d8850991588528aa635a1d49a861ce12bb21e5fe0396c7ed037447",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2024-03-22T03:07:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "431a66f4f0d9707cb39b90657bd237e9ed745239f597feaff403adc13788a909"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2403.14927",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}