On July 18, 2024 3:01:02 AM Vinnie Falco
On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 4:21 PM Andrey Semashev via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
I think, this violates BSL and I find this unacceptable.
I agree, this is a problem (if true). It is not the intent to prevent people from improving the distribution. On the other hand if someone wants to package some malware into the zip file with a Boost release, I would prefer that we could stop them from using the mark. Very happy to hear ideas on how to adjust the balance between openness and safety.
I think, safety is achieved by providing ways to verify integrity of the packages we distribute and educating users to use our official disribution channels along with package verification. Third party distributions should not concern us much unless those are malicious. In the latter case I doubt trademark protection will be effective anyway.