add a link to Mitchell's "Ethical Subcommons"

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@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ now it is unambiguous in its intent, and also, it says fuck in the title.
 as such, it is the only good software license.
 
 on a more sincere note, some licenses are trying to solve the problem of corporate exploitation by bringing back into fashion the idea of public-private licenses, where the default license is principled and corporations can simply pay for an exception and be covered by a different license instead.
-the most interesting of these projects, at least as of August 2020, is [license zero](https://licensezero.com/), which offers two different public licenses, one standard private license template, and infrastructure for automatically selling exceptions.
+the most interesting of these projects, at least as of August 2020, is [license zero](https://licensezero.com/), run by actual lawyer Kyle E. Mitchell, which offers two different public licenses, one standard private license template, and infrastructure for automatically selling exceptions.
 their Parity license is a share-alike license that allows any use that is also published under an open license.
 their Prosperity license allows any use as long as it is not commercial in nature; as such, it technically doesn't satisfy the Open Source Definition and is thus in a very concrete sense a post-open source license.
 their Patreon license, which isn't linked on their homepage at all, grants an automatic license exception for certain financial supporters.
@@ -241,6 +241,8 @@ as such, the approach Villa describes is to tell the law to mind its own damn bu
 norms are tough to start from scratch, but sociologically they can fill a similar role in principle to laws while maintaining flexibility.
 i'm not quite sure what a normative approach to post-open source software would look like - i'm not aware of anyone attempting to implement it, and i'm not sure i'm ready to be the first - but most likely it'd combine the WTFPL (or, more plausibly, zero-clause BSD) with an ecosystem of standard sets of norms similar to the current varieties in codes of conduct.
 
+*update 2020-08-15*: actual lawyer Kyle E. Mitchell proposed an implementation of this approach in early 2019 and i think everyone should go read [that proposal](https://writing.kemitchell.com/2019/03/15/Ethical-Subcommons.html) right now and then come back to this blog post.
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 and since i've been quoting him the whole time, i should probably also give a shout out to actual lawyer Luis Villa's current project, [Tidelift](https://tidelift.com/), which is trying to address open source funding at both ends.
 for corporate clients, (it looks like) tidelift is selling known-good, actively maintained, secure dependency subscriptions, and for open source maintainers, they're (i think) offering not just a proportional cut of the subscription revenue but also resources for keeping projects good, maintained, and secure.
 i haven't used it on either end, i'm just paraphrasing their marketing copy, but they do exist.