Loïc Joly wrote:
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, and even more their logos.
As David mentioned, special permission would be needed for logos. Use of company names I feel tends to be more relaxed, and I tend to concur with Dave that commercial entities have no particular right to control info about their use of Boost - but then again, I am no lawyer either (rather, just a humble mathematician who fell into software years ago). Does anyone know how other "project" pages garner such information? Are there any particular rules they need to comply with?
What might happen is that many small companies would agree easily, but very few big companies, where administrative stuff is more "brazil-like". 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.
We really like going to the bicycle shed - I think it's too important for more than one reason to let this issue just slip by yet another time... Furthermore, advertising Boost, through companies big or small is worthwhile, I can't see the rationale for holding back until we get a few "big names". -Any how, I'm confident that there are "big names" using Boost anyway ... it can't be that hard, or could it be? Cheers, -- Manfred Doudar MetOcean Engineers www.metoceanengineers.com