[drupal-docs] Legal Support

[Liza Sabater]

As far as I remember from my ad & mark days, unless it was stated in a 
contract beforehand, NO YOU CANNOT USE THEIR NAME W/O PERMISSION. They 
can claim breach of client confidentiality or what not. Not that that 
would be logical if you are using open-source software, but it raises 
the issue about customizing the standard GNU/GPL license that is 
slapped on the software. There should be some kind of addenda where it 
states Drupal has the right to use their name in marketing and ad 
campaigns, blah blah blah.

/ liza


On May 30 2005, at 10:17 PM, Andre Molnar wrote:

> 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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