[drupal-docs] Legal Support

[Anisa]

That's my sense of it too...  this is internal after all. 

Except, there is that case study that was published somewhere...

Anisa.

Cogley, Rick wrote:

>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
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>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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