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

From: Glen Fernandes (glen.fernandes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-02-16 20:59:14

On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 3:55 PM Niall Douglas wrote:
>
> On 16/02/2024 18:55, René Ferdinand Rivera Morell via Boost wrote:
> > 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.

Wasn't that through the Boost Consulting (or the later Boostpro
Computing) entity? Would not have been through SFC at least. (Nor
during the Steering Committee or the Boost Foundation).

Glen