I need to use Helvetica font in my Android application. I have following questions regarding the same: 1. Is helvetica.ttf free for use in commercial projects? 2. What are the legal issues that one must consider when using fonts in their applications? Thanks. ...
I am implementing a piece of software that inventories the list of installed Windows programs, and it would be great if I could use a small Windows logo as an icon inside of my software. What are the legalities surrounding the use of the Microsoft Windows logo in 3rd party software? ...
I've noticed in recent ads that the Verizon Droid and Droid Eris have to put up acknowledgement on Lucasfilm's trademark of the word "Droid", and had to pay licensing fees to use it. I'm wondering if an app I'm building that uses the word Droid in the naming is violating said trademark. I've noticed other apps that do it (Twitdroid), an...
fontsquirrel.com allows you to upload a font and create a @font-face kit which you can apply to your website and use to display fonts which will display cross-browser (even in IE6!). But what I want to know is, is this legal? I've been supplied the font "Lubalin Graph Std" and told to use this for headers on the website I'm creating. I ...
I'm a bit unsure about the Usage Information and Limits of Yahoo YQL. Per application limit (identified by your Access Key): 100,000 calls per day. Per IP limits: /v1/public/: 1,000 calls per hour; /v1/yql/: 10,000 calls per hour. Do I require an application/access key for the /v1/public/ interface? None of the examples use one. If I...
My program reads settings from a specially crafted configuration text file. I supply a sample configuration file together with my program when I ship the program. Is the sample configuration file contents subject to copyright? ...
I have been studying the opportunity of using free software pieces to make proprietary softwares for a while and am aware of legal constraints implied by free-liecenses such as GPL and LGPL. Nevertheless, there remains a whole mystery to me. gLibC is distributed as a LGPL piece of software, which enables to make proprietary softwares by...
Hi, I have been creating a cross browser compatible ( >= ie 6 + standards complaint browsers ) Online Instant Messenger What I would like to know is what licensing would I need to protect my code? how would i go about getting a license and where from? My code is in PHP, and jQuery. Regards, Phil ...
when doing long term sale of service or software, what type of legal contracts need to be drafted ? i'm not a lawyer, and was looking for a general template on statement of work, service level agreements and terms of services. how are java enterprise applications requiring server side logic, delivered by the vendor to the client ? do th...
I understand it is possible to sell the same application both in the market and outside it, great. I still don't understand a few things, that AFAIK are not mentioned in the contract but I might have missed or misunderstood something, so I'm going to ask. Disclaimer: I know you're not a lawyer, etc. etc. Let's say I give in the market...
We are doing work for a company, based in the UK, who are planning on developing an application that uses the BouncyCastle.Crypto.dll. They intend to make their product (including the crypto dll) available for download over the Internet. Are there UK restrictions on the export of crypto software that would prevent them from doing this? F...
Hi, I realise that modified versions of the software should be freely available, but what about the content that is held within a mysql database for instance? does that have to be available too? Cheers ke ...
I was recently made the "open source representative" for our software team. Some of the duties include: Tracking FOSS used in our projects Propose FOSS solutions to the software team Being the intermediary between the software team and the legal department While I have some experience with FOSS, I was wondering: Where I can get a g...
I have an idea for image copy-protection that I'm in the process of coding up and plan on selling to one of my clients who sells images online. If successful I think there would be a lot of people in a similar situation to my client who would be interested in the code also. I think this is a fairly unique idea that could be packaged into...
If you have an Android application that needs to retrieve data from your own server that depends on the latitude and longitude of the requests, do you need to let a user agree with the ability to save that same latitude and longitude for simple (and fun) statistical and anonymous purposes in some sort of EULA? Or is it sufficient to men...
Hi, This is a hypothetical question. If one would develop an iPhone/iPad (Universal) odds application, whould apple allow this to the appstore? This application would not let you bet on odds directly, but would collect odds from different odds sites and show them to the user. The user can launch these sites and make their bets there (no...
Whenever someone asks a legal question here on SO, the response is usually something along the lines of "we are not lawyers." Okay, that's legitimate, but in that case, how can I talk to a lawyer about software-related legal matters? I could look through the phone book and find a local lawyer, but then I have no way of knowing whether th...
One of my big goals is to design an operating system. If I write one with GUI elements (windows, lists, buttons, etc.) and make it for Commercial use, will Microsoft or Apple sue me, just like what happened in GUI war between the two of them? ...
Wish me luck! I'm starting out a private development company with a couple of colleagues! :) Now I would like to have all the right contracts to present to my clients. That is, a contract authorizing beginning of the design phase at an hourly rate, then a contract to prepend to the technical spec for the fixed price development porti...
Hi, I am not very strong in "legal or not" questions so I hope someone can help me here. How legal is the following: I create my forum, then choose a random existing forum (not mine), take a user from that forum (username, avatar, etc) and create an identical account at my forum. I know that this is extremely hard to prove and everythin...