[Scummvm-devel] Completing the transition to the new logo and icon

[Jean Marc]

Hi guys,

CC Attribution Share Alike works fine for me!

Jm


On Nov 1, 2009, at 9:30 PM, Max Horn wrote:

>
> Am 01.11.2009 um 17:50 schrieb Jordi Vilalta:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 2009/10/28 Max Horn:
>>> But we still need to...
>>>
>>> * update the favicons for the forums, buildbot, doxygen, planet
>>> -> I would do this, but unfortunately the build rule in media/trunk/
>>> Makefile produces bad .ico files for me: It looks somewhat as if  
>>> only
>>> the alpha data ends up in the .ico (if I use the same build rule to
>>> produce a PNG, it looks fine; converting that to .ico using
>>> ImageMagick's "convert" tool produced wrong data, too, sadly.  
>>> Maybe my
>>> ImageMagick is bad? If anybody succeeds in building
>>> scummvm_favicon_forums.ico etc., please send them to me and I'll
>>> upload them. If you know how to tweak the build process to fix this
>>> issue for good, please tell us!
>>
>> I see you found some information on how to fix the ico transparency.
>> I'll try to apply it to the build system.
>
> Great.
>
>>
>>> * Check *everywhere* whether our old logo is still being used. And
>>> report this to us so we can fix it. Even better is of course if you
>>> fix it yourself / provided updated files so that we can fix it
>>> quickly ;).
>>
>> It seems the forums site still has the old favicon (if my browser's
>> cache isn't playing tricks on me).
>
> My mistake, I only updated favicon.ico in / but it uses a second  
> copy. Fixed now!
>
> [...]
>
>> Going back to global tasks, now that we've already made public the  
>> new
>> logo I guess it's a good moment to give a green light to start
>> producing the updated T-Shirts.
>
> Absolutely. CC'ing Dan so he's aware of this -- Dan, take a peek at <http://scummvm.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/scummvm/media/trunk/originals/ 
> > :)
>
>
>
>>
>> Last but not least, I wonder what's the logo's license. It's listed  
>> as
>> GPL licensed in
>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scummvm_icon.svg (which by the
>> way still shows the old icon), but I think the GPL doesn't fit for
>> non-code material. In fact I don't remember seeing it specified
>> explicitly near our logo files.
>>
>> I don't know whether the original author had any preference, or maybe
>> it was required to use a free license when the original design was
>> made. I would suggest applying the Creative Commons "Attribution  
>> Share
>> Alike" license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) to  
>> all
>> the project's media (logos, icons, website styles?, etc.)
>
>
> This is something we must clarify together with the logo's author,  
> Jean-Marc. CC'ing him, too :). I wouldn't mind using the CC license  
> you suggest, but Jean-Marc must approve accordingly, too.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Max