Bug#698872: Debian logo svg file is not loadable in Inkscape

2013-01-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: www.debian.org [ reporting this as a bug ] Heya, Filippo Rusconi discovered the .svg of the Debian logo is not loadable in (some versions of) Inkscape. With the help of Jakub Wilk, the .svg has been fixed and it's attached to this mail. Can you please update the published ve

Re: Debian logo svg file is not loadable in Inkscape

2013-01-24 Thread Filippo Rusconi
s fine in Inkscape, The Gimp, Iceweasel and... GNU Emacs! Maybe the folks at debian-...@lists.debian.org might want to give it a test and replace the old file with this one? Anyhow I now have my Debian logo for my slides! Thanks all for helping with this issue. Cheers, Filippo -- Filippo Rus

Re: Debian logo svg file is not loadable in Inkscape

2013-01-24 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Jakub Wilk , 2013-01-24, 17:48: here's how to fix the SVG: 1) apt-get install libxml2-utils sgml-data 2) xmllint --noent openlogo.svg > openlogo-fixed.svg (Yes it's "noent", not to be confused with "nonet".) 3) Optionally, remove the DTD declaration from the resulting file. The last two step

Re: Debian logo svg file is not loadable in Inkscape

2013-01-24 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Filippo Rusconi , 2013-01-24, 17:13: Investigating a bit, I found that http://www.adobe.com/AdobeSVGViewerExtensions/3.0/ gives a 404 in my browser. This url is at line 18 of the file. Same for http://www.adobe.com/Extensibility/1.0/ That's not a problem. Namespace names are only compared

Re: Debian logo svg file is not loadable in Inkscape

2013-01-24 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 16:35 +0100, Filippo Rusconi wrote: >> fails to load in the much-respected SVG-based graphics editor Inkscape >> (which I use daily and which works fine also for svg files not >> produced by itself). > In mine

Re: Debian logo svg file is not loadable in Inkscape

2013-01-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 17:08 +0100, Filippo Rusconi wrote: > $ sha1sum openlogo.svg > f958ec1c5eaf8c8507e6830852292081fca1 openlogo.svg > > could you confirm this on a file that you have > > wget http://www.debian.org/logos/openlogo.svg Funny: inkscape openlogo.svg => fails inkscape http

Re: Debian logo svg file is not loadable in Inkscape

2013-01-24 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 05:08:24PM +0100, Filippo Rusconi wrote: > Hello Chris, > > thanks for bothering :-) > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 04:51:43PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 16:35 +0100, Filippo Rusconi wrote: > > > fails to load in the much-respected SVG-ba

Re: Debian logo svg file is not loadable in Inkscape

2013-01-24 Thread Filippo Rusconi
Hello Stefano, On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 04:53:44PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 04:35:23PM +0100, Filippo Rusconi wrote: > > We may want to make sure that this file loads fine in Free Software > > graphics svg-based programs and maybe convert it to either a more > > ge

Re: Debian logo svg file is not loadable in Inkscape

2013-01-24 Thread Filippo Rusconi
Hello Chris, thanks for bothering :-) On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 04:51:43PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 16:35 +0100, Filippo Rusconi wrote: > > fails to load in the much-respected SVG-based graphics editor Inkscape > > (which I use daily and which works fine also f

Re: Debian logo svg file is not loadable in Inkscape

2013-01-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 04:35:23PM +0100, Filippo Rusconi wrote: > We may want to make sure that this file loads fine in Free Software > graphics svg-based programs and maybe convert it to either a more > generic svg file, or at least something free (Inkscape might be a good > candidate for this).

Re: Debian logo svg file is not loadable in Inkscape

2013-01-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 16:35 +0100, Filippo Rusconi wrote: > fails to load in the much-respected SVG-based graphics editor Inkscape > (which I use daily and which works fine also for svg files not > produced by itself). In mine it loads, version 0.48.3.1-1.3. Cheers, Chris. smime.p7s Description:

Re: Debian logo svg file is not loadable in Inkscape

2013-01-24 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 04:35:23PM +0100, Filippo Rusconi wrote: > Greetings, Fellow Debianists, > > this is not actually a bug report but something that might concern us > all as a matter of Free Software use inside the Debian project: > > The Debian logo file at http://ww

Debian logo svg file is not loadable in Inkscape

2013-01-24 Thread Filippo Rusconi
Greetings, Fellow Debianists, this is not actually a bug report but something that might concern us all as a matter of Free Software use inside the Debian project: The Debian logo file at http://www.debian.org/logos/openlogo.svg fails to load in the much-respected SVG-based graphics editor

Re: A dream of the Debian-logo

2008-06-08 Thread brian m. carlson
On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 08:18:18PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: This picture is a dream of the Debian-logo in the future... For the record, while I don't dislike the "e = modern swirl" idea, the font (typeface?) of the rest of the letters is just awful for a logo (because it'

Re: A dream of the Debian-logo

2008-06-08 Thread Adeodato Simó
> This picture is a dream of the Debian-logo in the future... For the record, while I don't dislike the "e = modern swirl" idea, the font (typeface?) of the rest of the letters is just awful for a logo (because it's one of the common ones whose name I don't kno

Re: A dream of the Debian-logo

2008-06-07 Thread Victor H De la Luz
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Deepak Tripathi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I do think so that its a really nice picture , but one of my suggestion is > can't you create "e" in Circle/Spiral way. > that is my personal opinion ,your work is extremely good. > > > On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 12:39

Re: A dream of the Debian-logo

2008-06-07 Thread Deepak Tripathi
Hi, I do think so that its a really nice picture , but one of my suggestion is can't you create "e" in Circle/Spiral way. that is my personal opinion ,your work is extremely good. On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's a very nice picture, but I guess may

Re: A dream of the Debian-logo

2008-06-07 Thread Miriam Ruiz
It's a very nice picture, but I guess maybe it would belong more to somewhere like DebianArt [1] than to this mailing list. Greetings, Miry [1] http://www.debianart.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A dream of the Debian-logo

2008-06-07 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Saturday 07 June 2008 11:44:42 József Makay wrote: > This picture is a dream of the Debian-logo in the future... Very cool looking! -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 signature.asc Description: This is a

A dream of the Debian-logo

2008-06-07 Thread József Makay
This picture is a dream of the Debian-logo in the future... <>

Re: [OT] TeX font of Debian Logo?

2005-07-07 Thread Julien BLACHE
e for more information on the font (referenced in Alfi's mail below). > or google for "debian logo font" : > first match was a msg from Alfi: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2003/08/msg00261.html A ressembling free (as in beer) TTF font can be found here: <http://www.

Re: [OT] TeX font of Debian Logo?

2005-07-07 Thread Joerg Friedrich
Ok, last mail: searching the lists: the logo was created by Raul M. Silva. http://www.debian.org/News/1999/19990826 Maybe you could ask him, if he can create a Debian-Med logo for you. (http://www.silva.com / mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) I try to put this information on wiki.debian.net, if I manage

Re: [OT] TeX font of Debian Logo?

2005-07-07 Thread Joerg Friedrich
Joerg Friedrich schrieb am Donnerstag, 07. Juli 2005 um 16:17:39 +0200: > http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianLogo > or google for "debian logo font" : > first match was a msg from Alfi: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2003/08/msg00261.html btw. the i-dot seems to be manua

Re: [OT] TeX font of Debian Logo?

2005-07-07 Thread Joerg Friedrich
d in our Logo > > http://www.debian.org/logos/ ? > http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianLogo or google for "debian logo font" : first match was a msg from Alfi: http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2003/08/msg00261.html -- Jörg Friedrich There are only 10 types of people: Those who

Re: [OT] TeX font of Debian Logo?

2005-07-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Richard Atterer wrote: Do you only need the Debian logo in your TeX document? Then a far more promising plan is to embed the PostScript version of the logo as a picture. No, as I said I want to have the String "Debian-Med" and I need the "M". I could bui

Re: [OT] TeX font of Debian Logo?

2005-07-07 Thread Richard Atterer
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 03:46:20PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Does anybody know whether there is a TeX font which is equal or at least > very similar to the font used in our Logo I've never seen a Debian-ish TeX font. Do you only need the Debian logo in your TeX document? Then

[OT] TeX font of Debian Logo?

2005-07-07 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, it's surely off topic here but I don't know which is the relevant list ... Does anybody know whether there is a TeX font which is equal or at least very similar to the font used in our Logo http://www.debian.org/logos/ ? I would need to scale the Debian text and add a "-Med" behind

Re: origins of the Debian logo

2005-01-28 Thread Hanspeter Kunz
On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 15:18 +0100, Hanspeter Kunz wrote: > On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 18:01 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > In the process of completion of my book (http://debianbook.info), > > I have one more question. Unfortunately, I am on a shitty GSM link > > right now and the av

Re: ITP: backgrounds-debian-shell -- Photography of shells aligned to form the Debian logo

2005-01-23 Thread Gürkan Sengün
: Photography of shells aligned to form the Debian logo > > A photography that consists of shells aligned to form the > > Debian logo. > > A package for a single background is a remarkably stupid idea. This > should go in desktop-base. Hello Colin, Can you put only th

Re: ITP: backgrounds-debian-shell -- Photography of shells aligned to form the Debian logo

2005-01-16 Thread Joe Wreschnig
.mine.nu/jakub/ > * License : Artistic License > Description : Photography of shells aligned to form the Debian logo > A photography that consists of shells aligned to form the > Debian logo. A package for a single background is a remarkably stupid idea. This should go in

ITP: backgrounds-debian-shell -- Photography of shells aligned to form the Debian logo

2005-01-16 Thread Gürkan Sengün
ligned to form the Debian logo A photography that consists of shells aligned to form the Debian logo. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: powerpc Kernel: Linux ibook 2.4.23-ben1 #7 Sat Dec 27 11:20:38 CET 2003 ppc Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE

Re: origins of the Debian logo

2005-01-05 Thread Niklas Vainio
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:31:58AM +0200, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: > Sorry for the delayed response, but here is a possible answer to the > second part of the question from a semiotic perspective. Although the > question was what the swirl /tries/ to symbolize, it may be of some > interest what it a

Re: origins of the Debian logo

2005-01-04 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 18:01 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > In the process of completion of my book (http://debianbook.info), > I have one more question. Unfortunately, I am on a shitty GSM link > right now and the available (crippled) means of research have not > been able to produce an answer to

Yet Another Debian logo buttons

2000-08-17 Thread Takuo KITAME
Hello. I've influenced by Mr. Craig Small's and created yet another Debian logo buttons. (csmall's are at http://www.debian.org/~csmall/). I put mine at http://www.debian.org/~kitame/ How about this? Thanks. -- Takuo Kitame <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: APRIS GNU/LINUX EXPO UPDATES. (need debian Logo).

1999-09-19 Thread Joey Hess
Jeff Teunissen wrote: > Speaking of the open use logo, was it intentional or an unintentional > artifact of the conversion from EPS to xfig that changed the shape of the > letters and the logo itself? Unintentional, I think. I have .ps files with the correct shapes, and have sent them to the web

Re: APRIS GNU/LINUX EXPO UPDATES. (need debian Logo).

1999-09-16 Thread Jeff Teunissen
Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Previously Frederic CELLA wrote: > > can i send to them ? (this one the fisrt page of www.debian.org) > > The webpage has a postscript version of the logo iirc. This should make > it trivial for them to produce a 300dpi logo (or whatever other > resolution they desire)

Re: APRIS GNU/LINUX EXPO UPDATES. (need debian Logo).

1999-09-15 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Frederic CELLA wrote: > can i send to them ? (this one the fisrt page of www.debian.org) The webpage has a postscript version of the logo iirc. This should make it trivial for them to produce a 300dpi logo (or whatever other resolution they desire). Wichert. -- ==

Re: APRIS GNU/LINUX EXPO UPDATES. (need debian Logo).

1999-09-15 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Frederic" == Frederic CELLA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Frederic> They publish next week a magazine. they need 300DPI DEBIAN Frederic> LOGO. can i send to them ? (this one the fisrt page of Frederic> www.debian.org) Check out http://www.debian.org/logos/. They can use the open use logo, the p

Re: APRIS GNU/LINUX EXPO UPDATES. (need debian Logo).

1999-09-15 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 12:59:40 +, Frederic CELLA wrote: > They publish next week a magazine. they need 300DPI DEBIAN LOGO. At http://www.debian.org/logos/ you can find the logos as xfig source and as postscript. (Use ghostscript to produce the logo in your favourite bitmap format at y

APRIS GNU/LINUX EXPO UPDATES. (need debian Logo).

1999-09-15 Thread Frederic CELLA
They publish next week a magazine. they need 300DPI DEBIAN LOGO. can i send to them ? (this one the fisrt page of www.debian.org) if problem email to me. if not. i sen d to them this friday. bst regards. Frederic.

Re: The Debian Logo-team

1999-01-29 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 02:33:11AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > I indeed asked around on irc a bit if people were interested in this and > you said you we were to help out, but you never answered my question why > you would make a good choice. So I didn't know about your background in > publish

Re: The Debian Logo-team

1999-01-29 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Ben Collins wrote: > Not to sound put off by this, just wondering on what criteria you > selected the team. Considering I offered to help, and the fact that I > have a strong background in desktop publishing and web design (strong, > as in 8 years working experience) I would have thought

Re: The Debian Logo-team

1999-01-29 Thread David Welton
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 07:40:28PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > * Nils Lohner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * James Treacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Well, these guys are obvious... Nils has done a *great* job at getting lots of Debian press releases out there, and James is our webmaster. -- David Welt

Re: The Debian Logo-team

1999-01-29 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 10:02:18PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > After getting a few volunteers and asking a few other people I present > to you the Debian logo-team, who will select the best logos for your > voting pleasure: > > * Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

The Debian Logo-team

1999-01-28 Thread Wichert Akkerman
After getting a few volunteers and asking a few other people I present to you the Debian logo-team, who will select the best logos for your voting pleasure: * Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Teemu Hukkanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Nils Lohner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Possible GIMP contest for new Debian logo

1999-01-26 Thread Nils Lohner
Sorry, this probably belongs on -devel... I'll post it there too. About the design, I personally like the penguin for Debian GNU/Linux, have something similar for Hurd (meaning a red profile of a GNU head or something) and something different (maybe plain nice graphical text? There was a nic

Re: Way, way off-topic was: Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-26 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 10:33:30AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > You've forgotten something. The military act as if they are above any > > laws. (If they cared about obeying laws, they would be disarming nuclear > > weapons under their international treaty obligations) > > On the contrary.

Way, way off-topic was: Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-26 Thread John Hasler
Andrew writes: > You've forgotten something. The military act as if they are above any > laws. (If they cared about obeying laws, they would be disarming nuclear > weapons under their international treaty obligations) On the contrary. The "military", at least in the US and the UK, act in ac

Re: Debian logo contest, step 2

1999-01-26 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > I just got word back from Sven Riedel, the guy in charge of organizing > gimp contests. He was happy with our request, and was willing to organize > the whole thing. The contest will start in februari, after the current > contest (dreams) ends. Det

Debian logo contest, step 2

1999-01-26 Thread Wichert Akkerman
I just got word back from Sven Riedel, the guy in charge of organizing gimp contests. He was happy with our request, and was willing to organize the whole thing. The contest will start in februari, after the current contest (dreams) ends. Details and submissions will be at the usual site: http://c

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-26 Thread A . J . Gray
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 07:26:19AM -, Robert Woodcock wrote: > Avery Pennarun wrote: > >What if someone gets hold of the Linux kernel and uses it to guide nuclear > >missiles? (Well, at least they have to share their changes with us :)) > > Only if they distribute the control systems :> You'v

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-25 Thread Thomas Adams
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 03:37:57AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > to either of these animals. We have our own message, too. We are > constructors. We take the work of thousands of people and put them together. > Shouldn't this be reflected by the logo, too? You mean like a penguin wearing a har

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-25 Thread Max Hyre
All: Please pardon my non-developer comment, but one thing about the license has bothered me for a while, and I've seen no else bring it up: Do we really want to limit the maximum size of an entity that can display the license? Points 2, 3, & 4 of the license state, roughly, that yo

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-25 Thread Joey Hess
Jonathan P Tomer wrote: > is the name debian a registered trademark? I think so. > if it is, wouldn't it be sensible to do the same for the logo? I agree. I think trademarking the logo will allow us to prevent misuse and at the same time allow us to give it a DFSG-free copyright. -- see shy jo

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-25 Thread John Hasler
James A. Treacy writes: > Even with the existing license (and a valid expiry date) I have probably > handled 20 requests for use of the logo in the last 6 months. Doesn't seem like many considering that the present license encourages requests. Do you really think that forty people a year would en

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-25 Thread Andrew Dvorak
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > >On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 10:35:50PM -0600, Andrew G . Feinberg wrote: > > Larry Ewing and Tux. You don't see him writing a license, do you? > The picture of Tux is licensed freely for any use as long as Larry > Ewing is mentioned. Don't know about modification, t

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-25 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 06:20:49PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > Or don't license it: just use it on Debian stuff and grant individual > licenses on a case by case basis. I doubt that you will be swamped by all > the requests. > I'm glad to see you volunteer to take respond to requests that come

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-25 Thread John Hasler
Andrew G . Feinberg writes: > Why in the world do we need to license something as trivial as a _logo_? I wrote: > We don't. Darren Benham writes: > Of course we do. Otherwise we'd have to grant permission to every > tom-dick-harry that wanted to use it in any way-shape-form. I meant, of course,

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 02:32:27PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > The existence of a recurring discussion usually indicates an unsolved > problem. A vote might or might not resolve the underlying issue. > Let's hope that there is enough interest generated that we actually do solve the problem. >

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Darren Benham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 24-Jan-99 John Hasler wrote: > Andrew G . Feinberg writes: >> Why in the world do we need to license something as trivial as a _logo_? > > We don't. Of course we do. Otherwise we'd have to grant permission to every tom-dick-harry that wanted to use it in a

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Buddha Buck
> On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 11:44:06PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > We shouldn't license our logo by any license that does not comply with the > > DFSG. To do so would be hypocritical. > > > Not true. It's the Debian Free SOFTWARE Guidelines. A logo is not software. > It may well be that we want a l

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Jonathan P Tomer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- is the name debian a registered trademark? if it is, wouldn't it be sensible to do the same for the logo? - --p. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBNqt2MUJhnFR90XSjAQHeFAf9EULUklt0QfjI2DAbrPK2

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Raul Miller
James A. Treacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope that you are not trying to argue that there is no difference > between a program and a logo. This is clearly ridiculous. That's not my point. However, the definition of "software" is broad enough to cover both, and the use of that particular wor

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 01:42:30PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 11:44:06PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > > We shouldn't license our logo by any license that does not comply > > > with the DFSG. To do so would be hypocritical. > > James A. Treacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Raul Miller
On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 11:44:06PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > We shouldn't license our logo by any license that does not comply > > with the DFSG. To do so would be hypocritical. James A. Treacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not true. It's the Debian Free SOFTWARE Guidelines. You're trying to ma

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 10:35:50PM -0600, Andrew G . Feinberg wrote: > Why in the world do we need to license something as trivial as a > _logo_? Because if we don't, nobody has the right to make copies of it and display it publically. It's the same reason as with software. > as a normal person

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 11:44:06PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Robert Woodcock wrote: > > "You are licensed to use and distribute modified versions of this logo to > > refer to or advertise debian." > > > > Note that this fails DFSG point #6. I believe this was the original intent. > > We shouldn't

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Darren Benham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 24-Jan-99 Avery Pennarun wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 07:48:00PM -0600, Stephen Crowley wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 04:21:37PM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: >> > Debian is a free project to distribute a free OS. It should have a free >> > logo. FREE

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread John Hasler
Andrew G . Feinberg writes: > Why in the world do we need to license something as trivial as a _logo_? We don't. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you ca

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Joey Hess
Robert Woodcock wrote: > "You are licensed to use and distribute modified versions of this logo to > refer to or advertise debian." > > Note that this fails DFSG point #6. I believe this was the original intent. We shouldn't license our logo by any license that does not comply with the DFSG. To d

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Robert Woodcock
Avery Pennarun wrote: >What if someone gets hold of the Linux kernel and uses it to guide nuclear >missiles? (Well, at least they have to share their changes with us :)) Only if they distribute the control systems :> >Seriously, slander is slander, and it's rude, and people will know it when >th

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Avery Pennarun
On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 07:48:00PM -0600, Stephen Crowley wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 04:21:37PM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > > Debian is a free project to distribute a free OS. It should have a free > > logo. FREE THE LOGO!! FREE THE LOGO!! :-) > > And what if some anti-debian people ge

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread James LewisMoss
> On Sun, 24 Jan 1999 00:52:12 +0100, Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: Wichert> [1 ] For the Nth Wichert> time our logo license has expired. It might be a good idea Wichert> to finally finalize the license instead of just extending Wichert> its lifetime every couple of mon

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Andrew G . Feinberg
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 02:55:56AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Agreed. Shall we move the logo license discussion to debian-legal and > rewrite it there? Explain: Why in the world do we need to license something as trivial as a _logo_? I havent been a developer for a long time, but it

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 02:54:14AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > * It is a penguin (even if some think it's a chicken). A penguin is already > > the Linux logo, are we only capable of plagiarism, or are we up to the > > task > > and have an identi

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Darren Benham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 24-Jan-99 Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Darren Benham wrote: >> The current license? Are you sure? It needs to be rewritten if for no >> other >> reason but to remove the expiration date. > > Okay, so I should have read the license before posting th

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > * It is a penguin (even if some think it's a chicken). A penguin is already > the Linux logo, are we only capable of plagiarism, or are we up to the task > and have an identity of our own? Heh, nobody seems to be able to spot that :) > * A penguin is submi

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Chris Waters wrote: > Debian is a free project to distribute a free OS. It should have a free > logo. FREE THE LOGO!! FREE THE LOGO!! :-) Agreed. Shall we move the logo license discussion to debian-legal and rewrite it there? Wichert. -- ==

RE: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Ed Boraas
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Darren Benham wrote: > >On 23-Jan-99 Wichert Akkerman wrote: >> I propose that we vote on accepting both the logo and the current >> license. >> > >The current license? Are you sure? It needs to be rewritten if for no other >reason but to remove the expiration date. Note t

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Ed Boraas
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Chris Waters wrote: >Wichert Akkerman wrote: > >> I propose that we vote on accepting both the logo and the current >> license. > >I very much dislike the current license. I'm a debian developer, I'd >like to put the debian logo on my

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Stephen Crowley
On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 04:21:37PM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > Debian is a free project to distribute a free OS. It should have a free > logo. FREE THE LOGO!! FREE THE LOGO!! :-) And what if some anti-debian people get ahold of the logo and use it for evil purposes? -- Stephen Crowley

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Ed Boraas
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: >I propose that we vote on accepting both the logo and the current >license. I think this is a good idea. If this proposal needs to be seconded, consider this my "seconded!". If it needs to be seconded somewhere else (debian-vote?) i'll do so there :)

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Darren Benham wrote: > The current license? Are you sure? It needs to be rewritten if for no other > reason but to remove the expiration date. Okay, so I should have read the license before posting that :). Should we change anything besides removing the expiration date? So far nobody

RE: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Darren Benham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 23-Jan-99 Wichert Akkerman wrote: > I propose that we vote on accepting both the logo and the current > license. > The current license? Are you sure? It needs to be rewritten if for no other reason but to remove the expiration date.

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Chris Waters
Wichert Akkerman wrote: > I propose that we vote on accepting both the logo and the current > license. I very much dislike the current license. I'm a debian developer, I'd like to put the debian logo on my home page, but I do *not* necessarily want to devote half or more of

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 12:52:12AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > There has also been mention of people wanting a different logo. I think > we should stick to our current logo for several reasons though: > > * it is a good logo: it's easily recognizable, simple to draw, scales > good and

Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Wichert Akkerman
For the Nth time our logo license has expired. It might be a good idea to finally finalize the license instead of just extending its lifetime every couple of months. There has also been mention of people wanting a different logo. I think we should stick to our current logo for several reasons tho

Re: Debian logo

1998-10-10 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hello, On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 11:59:31PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > > Ideally, we need a version of the logo that can be reproduced in one > > or two colors. That way it can go directly on a CD or be printed > > inexpensively. Full-color printing can be rather expensive. > > And it should s

Re: Debian logo

1998-10-10 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 12:25:07PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > > > I would prefer a new logo, too. We shouldn't draw it. > > > We should run a gimp contest. They produced the Gnome logo, and th

Re: Debian logo

1998-10-10 Thread Chris Waters
> Ideally, we need a version of the logo that can be reproduced in one > or two colors. That way it can go directly on a CD or be printed > inexpensively. Full-color printing can be rather expensive. And it should scale well, from fairly large to quite small. This means lines and *simple* curve

Re: Debian logo

1998-10-10 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 02:43:05AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > I would prefer a new logo, too. We shouldn't draw it. > We should run a gimp contest. They produced the Gnome logo, and there are > artists as well as designer. They'll come up with a good, inspiring logo, > I'm sure. We should vot

Re: Debian logo

1998-10-10 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 12:25:07PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > I would prefer a new logo, too. We shouldn't draw it. > > We should run a gimp contest. They produced the Gnome logo, and there are > > artists as well as designer. They'll come up

Re: Debian logo

1998-10-10 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 03:58:58PM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: > > > > I'd prefer a new logo as well (with no offense intended toward the kind > > person who created the current one!) > > I would prefer a new logo, too. We shouldn't draw it. > We shoul

Debian logo

1998-10-10 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 03:58:58PM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: > > I'd prefer a new logo as well (with no offense intended toward the kind > person who created the current one!) > > But I can't draw, so I guess I should shut up. :-) I would prefer a new logo, too. We shouldn't draw it. We should r

Re: Debian logo license still not resolved

1998-01-11 Thread Richard Roberto
duct, such as a book or a set > of web pages, at least half of the content matter must be > related to the Distribution. > 3.3. In the case of a service, at least one half of the practice of > the service must be related to the use of the Distribution. I think

Re: Debian logo license still not resolved

1998-01-09 Thread Dale Scheetz
ebian' or any other marketing slogan containing the name Debian, when approved should *require* "The Debian Logo" appear on all product materials that meet the criterion "contains Debian". > * What about hardware manufacturers who preinstall Debian ? Do we > just let the

Re: Debian logo license still not resolved

1998-01-09 Thread Will Lowe
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Ian Jackson wrote: > Then if we want to change the licence we publish version 2 instead, > leaving version 1 available but stating that it is no longer > available. Users of the logo have to go and check each year that the These last two sentences are a little wacky. You mean

Debian logo license still not resolved

1998-01-09 Thread Ian Jackson
James A.Treacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Another person has requested use of the Debian logo. As most people > are pretty happy with the license I added a clause saying the logo is > usable under the current license > (http://www.debian.org/logos/logo.html. Update should reach ther

Debian logo license still not resolved

1998-01-09 Thread James A . Treacy
Another person has requested use of the Debian logo. As most people are pretty happy with the license I added a clause saying the logo is usable under the current license (http://www.debian.org/logos/logo.html. Update should reach there soon) until 31 January 1998 and told him he could use it

Debian Logo - Transparent Version

1997-12-02 Thread Paul J Thompson
I have converted our new logo into a transparent GIF, if anyone is interested. It looks pretty decent and is nice for light colored backgrounds. It can be found at the bottom of my web page: http://thomppj.student.okstate.edu/~thomppj/ - Paul J Thompson -

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