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

[Max Horn]

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