[richalex2010]

Who would we contact to receive permission, and/or to provide suggestions for licensing?

I'll need to do a bit of research that would allow it to be freely redistributed by anyone, but not modified in any way and with all intellectual property rights still belonging to FIRST. Hopefully, if a new licensing stance were taken, it would produce a win-win situation.

On a similar note, FIRST appears to pick and choose where the copyright issues are applied. It seems to me that use of anything, including the FIRST logo, brochures, etc., should not be allowed for any redistribution, yet it is available for anyone to use for such applications. This, by my understanding, should be in violation of the copyright rule, but yet it is promoted. If someone could tell me what the issue is here (different license, something else, etc.), that would be helpful.

Again, based on the rules applied (internally, by FIRST) to some files (manual, animation), nothing should be allowed to be used on anything not published *and* distributed by FIRST.
However, based on the rules that FIRST applies (internally) to other materials (logos, brochures, etc.), everything should be able to be used on websites, in promotional material, and generally spread over the web and the real world as much as possible.

I don't write this as a flame or anything like that, just to (hopefully) provoke thought. Also, please don't forget the question at the beginning of the post.

Respectfully,
-Jake Alexander