Nice work Fabrizio! I guess my first question should have been be: Does kicad have a logo? I like the one by Fabrizio in the attachments, and there's also one on the wiki somewhere that I've seen before.
Adam Wolf On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Fabrizio Tappero <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Adam, > not sure what you mean by the logo if KiCad but I guess you mean the > one in attachment. This artwork (as all other kicad icons in the kicad > development repository) was made by polling together lots of other > artworks especially from LibreOffice and even Geda stuff. Lots of > inspiration comes from Tango icon sets and the web in general. > > All kicad artwork is more or less here: > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kicad-testing-committers/kicad/testing/files/head:/bitmaps_png/sources/ > > and as you can see in the CREDITS doc here: > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kicad-testing-committers/kicad/testing/view/head:/bitmaps_png/sources/CREDITS > > it is lots of icons so I tried to make the best use of what is already > out there. > > In my opinion, you are free to come up with any logo or artwork that > you want and ask this mailing list if people like it. If they do, I am > sure Jean-Pierre or others will accept it. There are few guys here who > can give you lots of arty feedback (if you need it). > > As far as I am concern you can improve/replace any KiCad artwork you > like and if you need any help I am here. Also, if you are very much > into icon design and software usability, many icons would need some > polishing. > > cheers > Fabrizio > > > > On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Dick Hollenbeck <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 01/04/2012 11:43 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: >>> On 01/04/2012 07:54 PM, Adam Wolf wrote: >>>> Hi folks, >>>> >>>> Who owns the Kicad logo? >>> Fabrizio Tappero is the artist of kicad_icon_small.svg. >>> >>> If this is the logo you are talking about, he would hold the copyright on >>> it. I have no >>> knowledge of any copyright assignment from him to anyone else. >>> >>> Please name the artwork you are referring to if different than this. >>> >>> If this is the artwork, you should contact him, since he is the owner from >>> what I can see >>> in the commit logs. >> >> Please note that I deduced this by going back all the way into the *.xpm >> version, which >> was different. Fabrizio did a re-design on the current one. If not, then >> there would be >> a shared ownership possibly. So barring any copyright assignment, sometimes >> there might >> be co-ownership. Here, on said ICON, not IMO. >> >> >>> (It would be nice for the project to get a small royalty from sew on patch >>> sales, but it >>> seems this would be up to Frabizio, his negotiations, and his generosity.) >>> >>> >>> Dick >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
