Questions about the legal aspects of Stack Exchange sites, such as the terms of service, using content and/or code-snippets, attribution, copyrights, patents, using trademarks, etc. General legal questions are OFF-TOPIC but may be asked on Law Stack Exchange.
The legal tag is used for questions about all sorts of legal aspects of any of the SE sites. General legal questions are OFF-TOPIC but may be asked on Law Stack Exchange.
Here are a few sample topics which should use this tag:
- terms of service (eg: asking for clarifications about specific terms)
- using content (eg: what about copying SE content on another site)
- using code snippets (eg: using some code on SE in a commercial product)
- attribution (eg: how to correctly attribute content found on SE)
- copyrights (eg: which parts of SE are copyright protected)
- patents (eg: where to ask questions about specific patents)
- using trademarks (eg: how to correctly use them in a post)
Related tags: copyright licensing trademark copyright-infringement privacy creative-commons
