Loïc Joly <loic.actarus.joly@numericable.fr> writes:
David Abrahams a écrit :
I don't think we need to do that kind of diligence. If we have heard from someone who we have reasonable confidence works for the company, that should be enough. If a company asks us to, we can always remove mention from the site. I do think it would be wrong to use a logo without special permission from someone in authority, but companies don't have any special right to control information about their use of Boost.
Well, I'm not sure, but I think that many companies have some very strict policies about how their names are used,
In commercial advertising, yes. In general, no. I can write practically anything I want to about Microsoft, and use their name as much as I want, without fear of running afoul of their legal rights.
and even more their logos.
Yes, the logo is a copyrighted image, and can only be reproduced with the company's permission.
I use boost at work in my company. But I guess that if I told you to use this company name, without checking with the company lawers and the communication department, I would get into trouble.
But that's your problem, not Boost's. It's between you and your company.
What might happen is that many small companies would agree easily, but very few big companies, where administrative stuff is more "brazil-like".
One reason not to ask for permission ;-)
I'm not sure wether seing many name I've never heard of and no known name would be good or bad advertising. So I suggest that before getting such a page online, it would be good to wait until there are enough names, with some well knows ones.
You'll never even get started if you wait for that, IMO. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com