[U-Boot] Logo for U-Boot

Tue Jun 26 00:14:21 UTC 2018

On 06/25/2018 07:52 AM, Stefan Roese wrote:
> 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.

I vote for the first version or even version without text. Icons with
text are so 90ies :)

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Best regards,
Marek Vasut