[drupal-devel] Legal Support
Sorry for the cross post, Do we have any members in the community that are lawyers. Occasionally we have questions pop up regarding GPL and Licensing compatibilities - and there are bound to be questions about the legality of some of the documentation. I hope to continue to help coordinate the marketing documentation, but I'm sure there are times when legal questions will arise about making certain claims or citing names in marketing documents. Is there anybody that we have that we can turn to for these kinds of questions? For example, Joshuwa - who has been doing some amazing work on the print ad - asked: "Name-dropping is an excellent idea, especially big names like 'Yahoo!', but I am almost certain you'd need permission from Yahoo! before including their name/identity in an ad. I'm not 100% sure, but might be something to consider." I'm 99% sure that we wouldn't need permission - stating a fact is a fact and the fact is that Yahoo is using drupal internally - but then again I'm not a lawyer. andre
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 22:17 -0400, Andre Molnar wrote: ...
For example, Joshuwa - who has been doing some amazing work on the print ad - asked:
"Name-dropping is an excellent idea, especially big names like 'Yahoo!', but I am almost certain you'd need permission from Yahoo! before including their name/identity in an ad.
I'm not 100% sure, but might be something to consider."
I'm 99% sure that we wouldn't need permission - stating a fact is a fact and the fact is that Yahoo is using drupal internally - but then again I'm not a lawyer.
I don't think they would mind, but I do think that the "It's nice to asked" policy would apply. I think that we should at least ask and make sure that they do not mind. Also the fact they they do want to protect their trade marks and do not want use diluting it. Gordon.
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