On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:55:59 +0100 Martin Peres <martin.pe...@free.fr> wrote
> On 16/11/14 21:03, valeria aguilera wrote: > > Dear community members, > > > > Im a graphic designer and for the last couple of months I have been > > working on a new logo for the Nouveau project. After sending > > preliminary designs to both Martin Peres and Ilia Mirkin, we have > > decided to share the logo in order to gather your feedback. > > > > I would like to highlight that the logo incorporates a penguin > > corresponding to the linux kernel components used to create this open > > source driver. The 3D cube/shape represents the 2D and 3D acceleration > > capability. The “n” simply stands for the first letter in Nouveau and > > the green colour was chosen because the driver is for NVIDIA video cards. > > > > Please provide Martin and Ilia with your comments and preferences, > > since they both have been the ones giving me the design requirements. > > > > Valeria Aguilera. > > > > Hi Valeria, > > Thanks for making this public! > > I would like to address here the "BSD not wanted" argument that seems to > be implied by having a Penguin in the logo: > - Nouveau does not currently run on any other kernel but Linux. I know > that the BSDs are interested in porting Nouveau to their OS and I'm > happy they are doing so, but I do not think any real development will > happen on BSD unless both communities change heavily; > - The architecture of Nouveau DRM has been thought to use as little > dependencies to Linux as possible to ease porting (especially to work in > the userspace). > - Nouveau is under the MIT/X11 licence which is BSD-compatible! > - Finally, historically, Nouveau has only been developed on Linux by > Linux users. > > I personnally find the penguin extremely cute and I would rather want to > keep it. I hope I have convinced you (and especially the BSD-hobbyists) > that it does not mean we are hostile to BSD in any case! > > Cheers and thanks again for your contribution! Not attempting to take any *side* on the matter. But rather from a view to circumvent any such related "discussion", and *further* not attempting to take anything away from the artists hard work; but wouldn't an OS agnostic approach be the "ideal" candidate? Just saying. :) --Chris > > Martin _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list Nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
