Once it's up on Github and out there, you don't really have any control. It's not like we were keen to put big barriers on the 'try it out' side. I didn't have some mad keen quest to be able to communicate to management "hey, someone from A----- or H----- downloaded our library". That's not that interesting. A lot of people kick the tires.

What I did kinda want to know is if a major Intel customer put our library into production. Sometimes we figured this out by detective work - e.g. one of our staff had a bunch of custom standing google searches hooked up to an RSS feed that would often find big vendors handing out paraphrased versions of our documentation to explain which regex patterns were supported.