[U-Boot] Logo for U-Boot

[Simon Glass]

Hi Heinrich,

On 11 June 2018 at 09:54, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de> wrote:
> On 06/11/2018 03:03 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 10:21:53PM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
>>> On 06/09/2018 07:34 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On 6 May 2018 at 12:31, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 09:49:42PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 06.05.18 18:02, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
>>>>>>> On 05/04/2018 11:18 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 05/04/2018 08:46 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 05/04/2018 01:04 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 05/03/2018 11:57 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On 01.05.18 04:09, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 04/30/2018 08:22 PM, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> U-Boot has currently no logo that we can use in presentations.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On the U-Boot IRC channel the following propositions where made:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Source:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Circle-icons-submarine.svg
>>>>>>>>>>>>> License: GPL2+
>>>>>>>>>>>>> (Alex used this in some presentations.)
>>>>>>>>>>>> Yellow submarine, nice.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Maybe we should make it a bit more toward teal and orange to improve
>>>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>>>> contrast ? Although, maybe just replacing the depressive gray
>>>>>>>>>>>> background
>>>>>>>>>>>> with a light blue one would do.
>>>>>>>>>>> How about this?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>    http://csgraf.de/tmp2/uboot.svg
>>>>>>>>>> Lacks the teal.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I don't want teal :)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Without teal, the contrast of the image isn't good enough.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> And I think you might want to check with more people, since clearly it's
>>>>>>>> just the two of us discussing it now :)
>>>>>>> Find Marek's darling appended
>>>>>
>>>>> It's a little hard to quote things inline like this.  But, did you
>>>>> create your own image inspired by the wikimedia one?  I ask because the
>>>>> wikimedia one is GPLv2 or later, but an original one that we could dual
>>>>> license (for both a new framebuffer logo, and for printed materials,
>>>>> etc, where a CC license works better) would be good.
>>>>>
>>>>>> I tend to agree that it looks nice :).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It may mean we need a new web design too though, as the colors in the
>>>>>> logo probably don't work terribly well with the current blue.
>>>>>
>>>>> We can worry about that later.
>>>>
>>>> I think the logo as here is fine:
>>>>
>>>> https://www.xypron.de/projects/u-boot/images/Circle-icons-submarine-orange-teal.svg
>>>
>>> This logo was GPLv2+. Tom, didn't you say we needed something with
>>> creative commons license?
>>
>> So, while I'm Not A Lawyer(TM), there is a reason lawyers have made
>> licenses that are still "open source" but for other things.  One of the
>> uses of a logo is to be printed.  What on earth does GPLv2 (or later)
>> compliance look like for a brochure or a t-shirt?  That's not the
>> (usual) spirit behind why you would put a license like that on a thing
>> like this.  This is why currently projects use one of the Creative
>> Commons 4.0 licenses for images, hardware design, etc.
>>
>> And further pushing my "not a lawyer", it's generally accepted that you
>> can go from CC-4.0 to GPLv3 (or later), you can't go the other
>> direction.  And I'd also really rather not put people that want to use
>> our logo in the position of worrying about what GPLv2 compliance on an
>> image looks like (as it's not clear), I'm strongly in favor of a CC'd
>> image.
>>
>> If anyone can contact the actual author of the wikimedia image (it's not
>> the person that uploaded it, I dug that far) and have them agree to
>> re-license as CC, I'd be happy to go that route.  Thanks!
>>
>
> I have raised that question on:
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:CFCF#Circle-icons-submarine.svg

It looks like the answer was not what you needed, or perhaps I am
reading it incorrectly?

Here are two versions, both with 'U-Boot' text inside the logo. I
think this is important since otherwise the logo could be for
anything.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1TdX0JS_Zr6ZGtUt6F-6y8rUv2Hq2QlOp

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UxMY67es8OGIDMST-3G0Pc0aTjbasxTY

Regards,
Simon