Thanks a lot! I feel you on the whole legal stuff - I personally think it's silly that I even have to request permission to essentially promote other people's products on a poster (though I guess it is nice that the owners of the product now know we use their tech).
In any event, the open source or small companies have immediately gotten back to me with the okay (Ninject, RhinoMocks as examples), but I'm still waiting to hear back from the bigger companies (NVIDIA for one - we use CUDA to do some cool GPU processing, so we'd like to show that logo). Oh what a world we live in! Again, thanks for the permission, and thanks for making an awesome product - keep up the good work! George On Feb 2, 5:46 pm, dormando <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey dormando, > > I'm a developer at Chatham Financial, and we're big fans of memcached. > > > I was wondering if my company can use the logo for a poster at > > recruiting events. > > > The idea is that we want to showcase at a glance some of the software/ > > programs that we work with every day - hence displaying the logos > > instead just listing the of names. Memcached would be one of > > (hopefully) 22 other libraries/programs that we'd show the logo for. > > > We will specifically note we have no involvement in the creation of > > any of the software or logos that we're using, and that using the > > logos is either okay by a license or written agreement. > > > I'm posting from my personal gmail account, but if you need me to > > email from my company email account, then let me know (it's not hooked > > up to Google Groups). > > Neat! > > Well, I didn't have individual logo's to hand out before. We sorta do now: > > http://memcached.org/images/memcached_link_125.pnghttp://memcached.org/images/memcached_link_100.png > > I also have a larger one if necessary. > > From your usage it sounds okay, so count this as approval under the terms > you've stated, thank you for asking! > > The big issue we had have been companies listing product "compatibility" > along with the logo, or issuing PR about something something memcached > something. Users would be confused and think that the company was a > contributor or owner. > > Company would say that they never explicitly said that nor hinted at it; > however while a business might be used to clever legal maneuvering or > wording to get their way, I do not give a flying fuck. Here are the fucks > I do not give about: > > - "we did not explicitly say we just used the logo because etc" > - "we did not say but we stood in your booth with nametags stating our > company" > - "that's heresay" > > So if you wish to use these logos, please ask permission and try to not be > full of shit! I watch twitter and I talk to users and it confuses the hell > out of them. > > have fun, > -Dormando
