Hi, Since the Wave Federation Protocol is open-source from the beginning, I'm amazed that the Wave Protocol logo doesn't have an open-source friendly licence! How did Google expected the Federated servers to promote their technological affiliation without the ability to add a "powered by" Wave Protocol logo?
Anyway, if a new Apache Wave logo has to be built from scratch, I'll be doing my part by passing the word to some friends gifted with design talents... I've been thinking about this new logo for a few days and I think that, for the same reasons that the "Wave" name was kept when moving to Apache (probably to keep alive the renown of the "Wave" brand and to avoid the new project to slip in limbo), it would be probably best to have a new logo that reminds the Wave legacy and the Wave original logo. I'm not very skilled with Photoshop but I've done two simple examples attached here. Even if on first look it may look quite similar to the Wave protocol logo, there's nothing left of it except the color. I think it's important to identify the specificities of the Wave and Wave Protocol logos that can be covered by its copyright : Of course there is the "3D depth" of it. Their is also the wave signal shape : it has a smaller height in the middle and the left first part of the shape has been put closer to the rest of the W letter. Using a standard harmonic signal shape, without any of the specificities listed above, shouldn't infringe the existing copyright. >From what I've tested, a close signal is drawn with the *y=4sin(x)*function. So, what do you think of having an Apache Wave Logo recalling the original W logo? Jeremy Naegel wave-france.blogspot.com 2011/3/18 Paul Thomas <[email protected]> > Yeh I was going to say that. However you can't trademark a wave shape. So > there > is nothing stopping using a wave in thier design so long as the direct > association is not there. > > I'd be up for a logo design comp. I could do it in inkscape as a plain svg. > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Soren Lassen <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: Nathanael Abbotts <[email protected]> > Sent: Fri, 18 March, 2011 6:38:00 > Subject: Re: Licence on Wave Protocol Logo > > The Apache Wave proposal > > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/WaveProposal > > states that: > > "Google retains all rights to the trademarks "GOOGLE WAVE" and the > wave design logo, neither of which will be used in the Apache Wave > project." > > We should design a new one, if we want a logo for Apache Wave. > > Soren > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 3:23 AM, Nathanael Abbotts > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Can anyone tell me what licence has been applied to the wave protocol > logo? > > -- > > Nathanael Abbotts > > > > Email: [email protected] > > Wave: [email protected] > > Twitter: @natabbotts (http://twitter.com/natabbotts) > > Web: http://natabbotts.com/ > > >
