On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 04:40:07PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 11:03:08AM -0400, Joshua Allen wrote: > > Dear debian, > > I was wondering if the logo was inspired by bdale garbee's tie dye shirt? > > > > Thanks > > Josh > > It was subject to a Debian vote in 1999 - https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLogo > > "The chicken" was used for a period before that. > > The version with the bottle appears to have been more or less unused - the > Open Use logo - and almost everyone has used the Debian Official logo - the > swirl.
Well, no, the swirl is the Open Use logo, and the bottle is the Official logo -- see https://www.debian.org/vote/1999/vote_0005 -- w@uter.{be,co.za} wouter@{grep.be,fosdem.org,debian.org}