Legal

Hi Team,

I'm new to Drupal development and its legal issues related to GPL licensing, so, please read through my doubts/concerns and guide me in the best proper way possible.

We (as a team of Drupal developers) work for a service-providing company. Here, we utilize Drupal for few clients, using core and innumerable contrib modules.

Hello. When I customize a theme ( creating my own .css file and doing other stuff ) can people then legally copy that .css file, which they find when they use the view source feature of their browser?

Respected Sir, Madam
I have a C/C++ based application.

To configure this C/C++ application, start/stop this C/C++ application, I
needed a front end interface.

I have used Drupal, I have written a small module in Drupal to have forms and
all. Using that module I am able to manage front end requirement.

Now I am planning to sell my C/C++ application to some customers.
My questions are

1) Is it legal to use Drupal for front end interface of my c/c++ based
application.
2) Can I distribute Drupal code as part of installation package. I am fine to

I intend to use Drupal and build a SaaS type product, exposing a private API accessible by an API "key" (like oAuth). The paying customer would be subscribing to the service powered by the Drupal platform. The customer would connect their software over a RESTful connection to the Drupal SaaS product and trigger an event. Would this type of product require that I distribute code if a paying customer asked?

I've been told "yes" a few times. If it is the case then I find it odd since modules like oAuth, Mailchimp, Commerce License, and others are doing this in a similar way.

I have a customer who wants to build a SaaS platform that they would like their customers to subscribe to and create and collaborate content, publish, launch email campaigns and track the campaigns. am wondering if we can take Drupal and build modules on top of it and host it as a SaaS service?

I understand the code that we build has to be under the Drupal GPL norms. But does the GPL support this kind of a business model?

As I wind down to my final days of life, I find myself searching the various social media sites for their policies on user death. One of these is Drupal.org, and I have been surprised to learn that there seems to be no such policy that I can find.

I think that the Drupal community is sufficiently mature to tackle this. Although I will most likely be, to the best of my knowledge, the first Drupal developer of note to die, I will most certainly not be the last. And out of a user-base of several hundred thousand, I am probably not the first user to go.

IMHO, it would be a good idea add a question in the faq about how to license a new drupal module. From my point of view, I understand that the the contributors are adding a file called LICENSE.txt with the gplv2. In
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html, suggest license all files to avoid troubles adding a small note. Perhaps, we can use an only file LICENSE.txt in the drupal site and add this note.

This file is part of Drupal.

Drupal is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

Hello,
I intend to ask a Vendor to develop, for my account, a website based on Drupal tools and modules.
Vendor will create the code and then transfer it to me in order to be hosted on my Plaforms.
Should we consider this transfer as "a distribution", and therefore will I have to make the source of the website accessible to Drupal Community?
Thanks and best,
Gregory

Would be grateful for a clarification on how I can use Drupal Core, and other d.o hosted projects, for a site I'm building.

I am going to host this as an open source project on github so anyone either can participate or simply just use it for own needs. However, I also want to remove certain files from core, in particular most of the text-files in the root folder.

Can I do that without violating GPL? Everything will be documented in the project wiki with direct links to where the full official archives are available.