From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Haggerty Subject: Re: Our official home page and logo for the Git project Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 06:28:41 +0200 Message-ID: <5348C0F9.2000208@alum.mit.edu> References: <534578b2e22e2_af197d3081@nysa.notmuch> <20140411114017.GC28858@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Ardill , Felipe Contreras , "git@vger.kernel.org" To: Junio C Hamano , Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Apr 12 06:29:08 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WYpYy-0001HA-A6 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Apr 2014 06:29:08 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751448AbaDLE27 (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Apr 2014 00:28:59 -0400 Received: from alum-mailsec-scanner-5.mit.edu ([18.7.68.17]:61187 "EHLO alum-mailsec-scanner-5.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751407AbaDLE2p (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Apr 2014 00:28:45 -0400 X-AuditID: 12074411-f79ab6d000002f0e-41-5348c0fcdf01 Received: from outgoing-alum.mit.edu (OUTGOING-ALUM.MIT.EDU [18.7.68.33]) by alum-mailsec-scanner-5.mit.edu (Symantec Messaging Gateway) with SMTP id 86.6E.12046.CF0C8435; Sat, 12 Apr 2014 00:28:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.69.130] (p5DDB06F8.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [93.219.6.248]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as mhagger@ALUM.MIT.EDU) by outgoing-alum.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.12.4) with ESMTP id s3C4Sgn5002290 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Sat, 12 Apr 2014 00:28:43 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/24.4.0 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFtrOKsWRmVeSWpSXmKPExsUixO6iqPvngEewQedcZYvuM01sFgcf51l0 XelmsmjovcJs8aOlh9mB1WPnrLvsHs969zB6XLyk7PF5k1wASxS3TVJiSVlwZnqevl0Cd8ap rmWsBS/YKw7v287cwPiKtYuRk0NCwESi9e1KKFtM4sK99WxdjFwcQgKXGSV+PD3FCOGcY5J4 9HkhC0gVr4C2xL2OY2wgNouAqsS2fZ3sIDabgK7Eop5mpi5GDg5RgSCJP2cVIcoFJU7OfALW KiLgKHHiwXVWkJnMAjMZJVZfvgnWKyzgIHFm3hZWiGWtTBIt+76BdXAKWEvMmzCDEWSohIC4 RE9jEEiYWUBH4l3fA2YIW15i+9s5zBMYBWch2TcLSdksJGULGJlXMcol5pTm6uYmZuYUpybr Ficn5uWlFuma6uVmluilppRuYoQEvOAOxhkn5Q4xCnAwKvHwzlDzCBZiTSwrrsw9xCjJwaQk ysuxHCjEl5SfUpmRWJwRX1Sak1p8iFGCg1lJhNdmAVCONyWxsiq1KB8mJc3BoiTOy7dE3U9I ID2xJDU7NbUgtQgmK8PBoSTBywyMbCHBotT01Iq0zJwShDQTByfIcC4pkeLUvJTUosTSkox4 UAzHFwOjGCTFA7T32z6QvcUFiblAUYjWU4y6HBu2rWlkEmLJy89LlRLnfbgfqEgApCijNA9u BSy9vWIUB/pYmPcISBUPMDXCTXoFtIQJaMmlye4gS0oSEVJSDYwOu+VFZQseGN261XHp+4Hu hebP0hdsiVS7vP128qTM/VYcvApBn178ecZtc1zb/Om9/rddz9cbH3CJlmn4fe6O Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 04/11/2014 09:25 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > [...] > The motion is about this: > > Outside people, like the party who approached us about putting > our logo on their trinket, seem to associate that logo we see on > git-scm.com today with our project, but we never officially said > it was our logo (we did not endorse that git-scm.com is our > official home page, either, for that matter). > > It is silly for us to have to say "Ehh, that is a logo that was > randomly done and slapped on git-scm.com which is not even our > official home page, and the logo is licensed CC-BY by somebody > else. Go talk to them.", every time such a request comes. > > Please help us by letting us answer "Yup, that is a logo (among > others) that represents our project, and we are OK with you > using it to help promote our project" instead. +1 Michael -- Michael Haggerty mhagger@alum.mit.edu http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/