GPL

This topic will be of interest to many people across various organizations today who are deliberating on whether to adopt drupal or not and if so to what extent.

We are a group of Drupal enthusiasts within a large IT services provider interested in using the drupal platform to configure and create simple tools to help the various teams within the organization in day to day activities.

I'd like to release a couple of themes through d.org. All my themes are built using Eric Meyer's browser reset stylesheet which is in the public domain. I'm also thinking about incorporating public domain images in my themes, such as photographs from the NASA archives. At the same time I'm aware of the restriction that only GPL'd files are allowed into the repository. What am I to do?

The Acquia Marina theme uses icons in blocks, which presented an interesting challenge for contributing on drupal.org, since all files must be GPL licensed (PS. the PSD files for Marina are now available for download in our group). Creative Commons licenses don't cut it, which tends to be what icon designers go with when they decide to make free icons available.

bertboerland recently found that someone has created a Drupal API iPhone app. In the iTunes Store, it is sold for $1.99 and says "Copyright 2008 Sehat Rosny." I'm pretty sure this is a big no-no since on api.drupal.org, it says specifically, "All source code and documentation on this site is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 and later. Drupal is a registered trademark of Dries Buytaert." I e-mailed Apple about the violation so hopefully it is removed. I like the idea, but it's just not done correctly. Note the author also has done the same for PHP and Apache documentation. I haven't looked into either of those to see if they are violations as well.

Hello,

I am working on a base-theme yui-grids-framework.
First of all: there is such a project on D.o. already, but that one is a) dead, and b) suffering from the same thing I want to solve.

YUI grids is dristributed under BSD. From my tiny bit of legal knowledge, I recall that BSD can be relicenced as GPL.
In that case, I can simply do so, and then upload the results to Drupal.org CVS.

I am not a lawyer. Item #10 of the licensing FAQ asks a particular question (my emphasis throughout):

10: Can I write a "bridge module" to interface between Drupal and another system or library?

but then goes on to answer a slightly different one (with specific regard to incompatible licences):

http://drupal.org/project/wysiwygpro

Is something like that allowed:
A) on drupal's CVS
B) at all?

See https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=180636&package_id...

NewsCloud made a very interesting little Facebook app, and they released the source of the Facebook part of their application. Looks easy enough, perhaps a starting point to look at for some ideas.