Category: Legal Resources, Open Source, Developer Tools

General Legal Templates is an open-source collection of attorney-drafted legal templates for startups and technology companies, released under the CC0 1.0 public domain license. That means anyone can use, modify, and distribute them for any purpose without attribution. Templates are provided in both LLM-optimized markdown and original .docx formats, with highlighted text indicating fields that should be customized. The collection covers advisor agreements, mutual and one-way NDAs, business associate agreements (BAA), data processing addendums for U.S. and global privacy laws, employment offer letters, master services agreements, privacy policies, and website terms of use.

What makes this collection notable is its technical accessibility. The markdown format means developers can integrate these documents into automated workflows, documentation generators, or AI-assisted legal review pipelines. The CC0 license removes all legal ambiguity about reuse. For developers, indie hackers, and small teams that need standard legal documents for a website or SaaS product without paying for a custom legal review, this repository provides a practical and freely usable foundation.