Re: Potential Launch of Boost Website: Request for Final Feedback

From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-02-16 20:45:35

On 16/02/2024 18:55, René Ferdinand Rivera Morell via Boost wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 12:33 PM David Sankel via Boost
> <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 9:34 AM John Maddock via Boost <
>> boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not affiliated to either organization, and I need to apologize for
>>> not yet having found the time to test drive the proposed new website,
>>> but if everything is under the BSL then strictly IMO it is no different
>>> to any other contribution to Boost.  Indeed, I would actually *expect*
>>> any new website code to be BSL licensed?
>>
>>
>> Of course the licensing of the website should be BSL licensed. This is
>> referring to the new boost logo/artwork copyright. The Boost foundation
>> needs an assignment to enforce its licensing.
> 
> Has the Boost Foundation enforced licensing of the current logo? If
> so, can you give an example of what that was?

I remember cease and desist letters being sent to some people many years 
ago who were sticking Boost branding all over their code and claiming it 
was a Boost library, when it was not. They promptly removed their 
claims. This was before the Software Freedom association and long before 
any Foundations, so very long ago.

I can't remember anything in many recent years however. Obviously I've 
been around Boost for too long if it all fades into grey.

Niall