[drupal-docs] Legal Support

[Cogley, Rick]

I am not a lawyer, but as a business person I think that permission would be
not only courteous, but also required. When marketing dep'ts have customers
fill out surveys, sometimes they ask at the same time if they can use the
comments publicly. From my experience, many companies, especially publicly
traded ones, are sensitive to this sort of things. FWIW. 

Best Regards,
Rick

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-----Original Message-----
From: Andre Molnar [mailto:mcsparkerton at yahoo.co.uk] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 11:17 AM
To: drupal-devel at drupal.org; drupal-docs at drupal.org
Subject: [drupal-docs] 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
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