On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 05:57, Martin Bähr wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 01:56:42PM +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > > What are the rules about using the penguin? > > > Is he free for anyone to bash about with > > Yes. > > > or are there rules? > > Start from one of the originals, not somebody else's derivitive. > > why? starting with a derivative only raises the chance of the result > being more different from the original. and there is no rule that the > original may not be changed, on the contrary i'd like to see more > variety in penguins out there.
I suspect that the reason for starting from the original is so that a level of consistancy is maintained, and in order to achieve that you want people to relate your logo with Linux. If your project is an offshoot of someone else's work, then it's fine to offshoot from there. The danger is that if you start with a derivative and someone else then starts from your derivative, by the time a 4th person gets in to the mix the logo may not be recognisable as being Tux, or Linux related at all. Keep it simple stupid. It works better that way. -- Paul Wilkins
