Grant Goodyear posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Tue, 09 May 2006 08:08:30 -0500:
> We've had "Znurt", the UFO > guy, since the beginning. > (http://web.archive.org/web/20001018091553/http://www.gentoo.org/) > I'm pretty sure that drobbins created him, but I don't know anything > else about him. Not that I'd know who created him, but from the posts I've seen, drobbins did have the rights to him. Last I read, if I read correctly, he gave Gentoo permission to use him. (Previous to that, I believe the understanding was that we had temporary permission to use him, but that we were to remove him in the redesign. Thus, the change, if I'm not misinformed, is that we can now continue using him in the redesign. =8^) > As for Larry, my (possibly incorrect) recollection is that drobbins > swiped the image from an open-source font for that infamous poster. > I've no idea where the name came from, but after a discussion about > Larry's gender we had an e-mail from an author of a comic who had "Larry > the cow" as a character (quite unknown to drobbins) who was amused at > the coincidence. (That author also gave us permission to continue using > the name, if it were to turn out that we needed it.) I don't seem to > have that e-mail archived, so if anybody else does, please let me know. See, that's the type of "history" I had in mind. Simply make the image a link to a history page with links to the gender discussions, mentioning the comic (the author likely wouldn't mind a link to it, if possible), the poster (for places where just the head is used), etc. Done right, particularly with the gender discussion thing thrown in, it could IMO actually add to the mythos, rather than destroying it. I could be wrong, tho. Other opinions? Do that for both Znurt and Larry, linking each to its own page. We should also be sure to include references to them in our logo policy, if it's not there already, particularly mentioning that Znurt isn't ours, but is used by permission, etc, etc (I've not looked at it for awhile, perhaps it's already covered?). Also, just in case it ever comes up, I don't believe we've been given /exclusive/ use of Znurt, so we /should/ be aware that drobbins may at some time find another use for him, even if we now have permission to continue using him. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- [email protected] mailing list
