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Hi all. I like to request your opinion to re-use some parts of the contents from this wiki.

I am working on an open-source business software licensed under GPL Version 3, called tryton[1]. The target of our software is to have an application framework for small and mid-sized companies usable all around the world. The business-related nature of the project is sometimes a quite boring.

I searched a long time for some nice success story scenario to provide demo data for our product. First I found a product portfolio from the ACME company from Disney's Donald Duck, which was a great story in their days. But to be honest, the Donald Duck scenario, nowadays feels a kind of boring, to me. (Sorry for this).

Most fortunately I found this wiki about one of my favorite serials, Futurama. It includes everything I need to setup a real cool demo company with employees, products, competitors, persons, places. And the most important, it includes a textual story all around this. The clue with death factual demo data for a financial application is, to have a background story for the data. The http://theinfosphere.org provides me with short textual information about a living company with personal actors and interesting products behind. I am not sure if someone is interested in this background story stuff, but who cares?

What do you think, can I re-use 'your' contents to setup a demo data set for the Planet Express, inc?

My main problem is, that I can maybe not put a source link on every single quote from the wiki. But there are many places where I can put a link to the source (Product description, Company URL, etc.)

Do you know if I need to request others for using terms or trademarks used in the world of Futurama (Matt Groening, David X. Cohen, VOX...)?

Cheers Udono 20:47, 12 October 2010 (CEST)

[1] www.tryton.org


 * This is not my department, but... I don't see what's wrong with that. However, if you want to use part of the Planet Express article, I'd recommend you to wait a little, or, even better, contribute, 'cause it still needs some improvement. You'll really have to wait for the admins' thoughts, though. San Saber 21:06, 12 October 2010 (CEST)


 * Yes, sounds good to me. I think I will refer to the Planet Express page with a link from the enterprise setup in Tryton. So if someone is interested in the planet express home page, he will be pointed to this URL in his favorite browser. I find the given intro-text is quite good for this aim. --Udono 22:14, 12 October 2010 (CEST)


 * As according to Copyrights, you are allowed to reuse our content, only with the requirement that you provide a link to our wiki. No other restrictions. --Sviptalk 21:45, 12 October 2010 (CEST)
 * Providing a link to your wiki is my goal. I hate duplicated contents, so for me it is better to put a link instead of maintaining a copy of contents from this wiki. --Udono 22:31, 12 October 2010 (CEST)
 * In addition to your question, the answer is probably not. I am not entirely familiar with the exact rules regarding trademarks, but I think you are safe.  Unless you are using their content and not making a disclaimer about it, like we do. --Sviptalk 21:53, 12 October 2010 (CEST)
 * Hopefully a disclaimer will be enough. Did you receive any feedback in the legal sense? --Udono 22:31, 12 October 2010 (CEST)

A little late to the party, but I'd also like to point out that it is also a "Share-Alike" license, which means any content you create using our content must be release with the exact same license. Not a big requirement, but it might limit your desire to use too much in your entire product. You could probably just release the textual examples under that license and still maintain other GPL licenses or whatever on the actual software. --Buddy 05:20, 13 December 2010 (CET)