[U-Boot] Logo for U-Boot

[Stefan Roese]

On 24.06.2018 20:07, Simon Glass wrote:
> 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.

Yes, i agree. The text should be added.

> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1TdX0JS_Zr6ZGtUt6F-6y8rUv2Hq2QlOp
> 
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UxMY67es8OGIDMST-3G0Pc0aTjbasxTY

I'm in favor of the 2nd version with the complete text.

Thanks,
Stefan