Blimey - arguments over a feather, However, I want to argue about your "They look nothing alike" and I would say to a non-feather expert, they are very similar. Same orientation (upwards, pointing to the right), white middle, a nick on the right. They do look alike ... very alike.
Chris On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 8:56 PM, R Smith <rsm...@rsweb.co.za> wrote: > > > On 2016/07/05 9:30 PM, Zsbán Ambrus wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 2:03 PM, R.A. Nagy <r.a.n...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I am putting together a commercial training for SQLite. I would like to >>> use >>> the SQLite logo - as seen on the website - on the cover of the materials. >>> >> >> SQLite has a logo... >> >> wow. I didn't notice that before. I just checked the homepage >> "http://sqlite.org/";, and it shows a feather in the corner that looks >> basically the same as the Apache logo. Is there a reason why they're >> so similar? I mean, they're both for software, so it can be confusing >> for people who (unlike me) actually pay attention to logos. >> > > They look nothing alike - I mean apart from the fact they both display a > feather. Apache uses a multi-coloured pen feather with visible > downs-feather base (the soft fluffy bit near the bottom of the branching > section) to represent the typical feathers that might adorn the head-band > of an Apache Indian chief. No doubt the connotation was made to symbolise > its relative light-ness in a World of heavy Web servers. > > SQLite shows an outer-wing section feather of a smaller bird (no downs, > shorter with wider blade) in more or less the same orientation as the > Apache feather, but with no colours (just white on blue background) to > symbolise very specifically the lightness of the product (I imagine). > > They both contain upright feathers, but that's where the similarity ends, > for if it was the intent of the SQLite creators to mimic the Apache logo, > they did a very poor job of it! > > > It's like saying the Miami Dolphins has the same Logo as MySQL... :) > > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
