"John Maddock" <john@johnmaddock.co.uk> writes:
We also need a clear policy for what goes on the page, my initial thoughts are that as an incentive to users to "own up" we should allow:
A company logo, where appropriate. A link to the home page of the product/organisation that's using Boost. A brief description of the product/organisation that's using Boost.
In addition, the text should say which parts of Boost the product/organisation is using (anything else?). Glowing recommendations would be strictly optional ;-)
We can use http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/projects.html as a model/starting point.
Finally, before posting on a web page, we should have the permission of a "responsible person" in the organisation concerned, probably whoever does their public relations, this is obviously the tricky bit.
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. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com