Posted by textformer on August 11, 2011 at 7:41am
Hi,
can someone help me out? I am writing a german technical book about Drupal 7. In the introduction I am mentioning the Druplicon, and I'd like to show the image. May I use the Druplicon or not? The book will be commercially sold and it will not be published under a GPL license.
Anyone who knows this?
Nicolai Schwarz
I don't understand why the Druplicon is licensed under GPL anyway, as this applies to software?
Comments
aggregation
I don't know the answer, but you wouldn't be the first author to use Druplicon: http://crackingdrupal.com/ features it on the cover and throughout the book (this book has conventional copyright terms; not GPL).
One answer might be this section of GPLv2:
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As to the reason for the GPL, I think it's because Druplicon his been packaged with the source code since forever, and there's been a desire to have the whole package under a single license.
The publishers created the
The publishers created the cover of Cracking Drupal and are responsible for it, so I figured their lawyers must have reviewed it and approved it. Right? (right?!?!?). Either way, it's not my responsibility...
Another point to consider is that if a book includes code snippets that interact with Drupal then those code snippets must be available under the GPL. But does that mean the whole book has to be GPL? Probably not...
I think grendzy's point about aggregation is right though neither of us is a lawyer.
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Already in screenshots
Thanks for the comment.
Well, I guess it should be ok to use the Druplicon as "standalone-image". The icon will be in the book anyway, as it is already part of some screenshots during the installation process.