Re: Debian logo svg file is not loadable in Inkscape

2013-01-24 Thread Filippo Rusconi
[ CC: debian-...@lists.debian.org ] Greetings Jakub, On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 06:17:37PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Jakub Wilk , 2013-01-24, 17:48: > >here's how to fix the SVG: > > > >1) apt-get install libxml2-utils sgml-data > >2) xmllint --noent openlogo.svg > openlogo-fixed.svg > >(Yes it's

Re: Debian logo svg file is not loadable in Inkscape

2013-01-24 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Jakub Wilk , 2013-01-24, 17:48: here's how to fix the SVG: 1) apt-get install libxml2-utils sgml-data 2) xmllint --noent openlogo.svg > openlogo-fixed.svg (Yes it's "noent", not to be confused with "nonet".) 3) Optionally, remove the DTD declaration from the resulting file. The last two step

Re: Debian logo svg file is not loadable in Inkscape

2013-01-24 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Filippo Rusconi , 2013-01-24, 17:13: Investigating a bit, I found that http://www.adobe.com/AdobeSVGViewerExtensions/3.0/ gives a 404 in my browser. This url is at line 18 of the file. Same for http://www.adobe.com/Extensibility/1.0/ That's not a problem. Namespace names are only compared

Re: Debian logo svg file is not loadable in Inkscape

2013-01-24 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 16:35 +0100, Filippo Rusconi wrote: >> fails to load in the much-respected SVG-based graphics editor Inkscape >> (which I use daily and which works fine also for svg files not >> produced by itself). > In mine

Re: Debian logo svg file is not loadable in Inkscape

2013-01-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 17:08 +0100, Filippo Rusconi wrote: > $ sha1sum openlogo.svg > f958ec1c5eaf8c8507e6830852292081fca1 openlogo.svg > > could you confirm this on a file that you have > > wget http://www.debian.org/logos/openlogo.svg Funny: inkscape openlogo.svg => fails inkscape http

Re: Debian logo svg file is not loadable in Inkscape

2013-01-24 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 05:08:24PM +0100, Filippo Rusconi wrote: > Hello Chris, > > thanks for bothering :-) > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 04:51:43PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 16:35 +0100, Filippo Rusconi wrote: > > > fails to load in the much-respected SVG-ba

Re: Debian logo svg file is not loadable in Inkscape

2013-01-24 Thread Filippo Rusconi
Hello Stefano, On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 04:53:44PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 04:35:23PM +0100, Filippo Rusconi wrote: > > We may want to make sure that this file loads fine in Free Software > > graphics svg-based programs and maybe convert it to either a more > > ge

Re: Debian logo svg file is not loadable in Inkscape

2013-01-24 Thread Filippo Rusconi
Hello Chris, thanks for bothering :-) On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 04:51:43PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 16:35 +0100, Filippo Rusconi wrote: > > fails to load in the much-respected SVG-based graphics editor Inkscape > > (which I use daily and which works fine also f

Re: Debian logo svg file is not loadable in Inkscape

2013-01-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 04:35:23PM +0100, Filippo Rusconi wrote: > We may want to make sure that this file loads fine in Free Software > graphics svg-based programs and maybe convert it to either a more > generic svg file, or at least something free (Inkscape might be a good > candidate for this).

Re: Debian logo svg file is not loadable in Inkscape

2013-01-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 16:35 +0100, Filippo Rusconi wrote: > fails to load in the much-respected SVG-based graphics editor Inkscape > (which I use daily and which works fine also for svg files not > produced by itself). In mine it loads, version 0.48.3.1-1.3. Cheers, Chris. smime.p7s Description:

Re: Debian logo svg file is not loadable in Inkscape

2013-01-24 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 04:35:23PM +0100, Filippo Rusconi wrote: > Greetings, Fellow Debianists, > > this is not actually a bug report but something that might concern us > all as a matter of Free Software use inside the Debian project: > > The Debian logo file at http://www.debian.org/logos/open

Re: Way, way off-topic was: Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-26 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 10:33:30AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > You've forgotten something. The military act as if they are above any > > laws. (If they cared about obeying laws, they would be disarming nuclear > > weapons under their international treaty obligations) > > On the contrary.

Way, way off-topic was: Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-26 Thread John Hasler
Andrew writes: > You've forgotten something. The military act as if they are above any > laws. (If they cared about obeying laws, they would be disarming nuclear > weapons under their international treaty obligations) On the contrary. The "military", at least in the US and the UK, act in ac

Re: Debian logo contest, step 2

1999-01-26 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > I just got word back from Sven Riedel, the guy in charge of organizing > gimp contests. He was happy with our request, and was willing to organize > the whole thing. The contest will start in februari, after the current > contest (dreams) ends. Det

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-26 Thread A . J . Gray
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 07:26:19AM -, Robert Woodcock wrote: > Avery Pennarun wrote: > >What if someone gets hold of the Linux kernel and uses it to guide nuclear > >missiles? (Well, at least they have to share their changes with us :)) > > Only if they distribute the control systems :> You'v

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-25 Thread Thomas Adams
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 03:37:57AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > to either of these animals. We have our own message, too. We are > constructors. We take the work of thousands of people and put them together. > Shouldn't this be reflected by the logo, too? You mean like a penguin wearing a har

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-25 Thread Max Hyre
All: Please pardon my non-developer comment, but one thing about the license has bothered me for a while, and I've seen no else bring it up: Do we really want to limit the maximum size of an entity that can display the license? Points 2, 3, & 4 of the license state, roughly, that yo

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-25 Thread Joey Hess
Jonathan P Tomer wrote: > is the name debian a registered trademark? I think so. > if it is, wouldn't it be sensible to do the same for the logo? I agree. I think trademarking the logo will allow us to prevent misuse and at the same time allow us to give it a DFSG-free copyright. -- see shy jo

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-25 Thread John Hasler
James A. Treacy writes: > Even with the existing license (and a valid expiry date) I have probably > handled 20 requests for use of the logo in the last 6 months. Doesn't seem like many considering that the present license encourages requests. Do you really think that forty people a year would en

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-25 Thread Andrew Dvorak
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > >On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 10:35:50PM -0600, Andrew G . Feinberg wrote: > > Larry Ewing and Tux. You don't see him writing a license, do you? > The picture of Tux is licensed freely for any use as long as Larry > Ewing is mentioned. Don't know about modification, t

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-25 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 06:20:49PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > Or don't license it: just use it on Debian stuff and grant individual > licenses on a case by case basis. I doubt that you will be swamped by all > the requests. > I'm glad to see you volunteer to take respond to requests that come

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-25 Thread John Hasler
Andrew G . Feinberg writes: > Why in the world do we need to license something as trivial as a _logo_? I wrote: > We don't. Darren Benham writes: > Of course we do. Otherwise we'd have to grant permission to every > tom-dick-harry that wanted to use it in any way-shape-form. I meant, of course,

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 02:32:27PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > The existence of a recurring discussion usually indicates an unsolved > problem. A vote might or might not resolve the underlying issue. > Let's hope that there is enough interest generated that we actually do solve the problem. >

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Darren Benham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 24-Jan-99 John Hasler wrote: > Andrew G . Feinberg writes: >> Why in the world do we need to license something as trivial as a _logo_? > > We don't. Of course we do. Otherwise we'd have to grant permission to every tom-dick-harry that wanted to use it in a

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Buddha Buck
> On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 11:44:06PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > We shouldn't license our logo by any license that does not comply with the > > DFSG. To do so would be hypocritical. > > > Not true. It's the Debian Free SOFTWARE Guidelines. A logo is not software. > It may well be that we want a l

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Jonathan P Tomer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- is the name debian a registered trademark? if it is, wouldn't it be sensible to do the same for the logo? - --p. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBNqt2MUJhnFR90XSjAQHeFAf9EULUklt0QfjI2DAbrPK2

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Raul Miller
James A. Treacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope that you are not trying to argue that there is no difference > between a program and a logo. This is clearly ridiculous. That's not my point. However, the definition of "software" is broad enough to cover both, and the use of that particular wor

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 01:42:30PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 11:44:06PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > > We shouldn't license our logo by any license that does not comply > > > with the DFSG. To do so would be hypocritical. > > James A. Treacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Raul Miller
On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 11:44:06PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > We shouldn't license our logo by any license that does not comply > > with the DFSG. To do so would be hypocritical. James A. Treacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not true. It's the Debian Free SOFTWARE Guidelines. You're trying to ma

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 10:35:50PM -0600, Andrew G . Feinberg wrote: > Why in the world do we need to license something as trivial as a > _logo_? Because if we don't, nobody has the right to make copies of it and display it publically. It's the same reason as with software. > as a normal person

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 11:44:06PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Robert Woodcock wrote: > > "You are licensed to use and distribute modified versions of this logo to > > refer to or advertise debian." > > > > Note that this fails DFSG point #6. I believe this was the original intent. > > We shouldn't

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Darren Benham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 24-Jan-99 Avery Pennarun wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 07:48:00PM -0600, Stephen Crowley wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 04:21:37PM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: >> > Debian is a free project to distribute a free OS. It should have a free >> > logo. FREE

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread John Hasler
Andrew G . Feinberg writes: > Why in the world do we need to license something as trivial as a _logo_? We don't. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you ca

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Joey Hess
Robert Woodcock wrote: > "You are licensed to use and distribute modified versions of this logo to > refer to or advertise debian." > > Note that this fails DFSG point #6. I believe this was the original intent. We shouldn't license our logo by any license that does not comply with the DFSG. To d

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Robert Woodcock
Avery Pennarun wrote: >What if someone gets hold of the Linux kernel and uses it to guide nuclear >missiles? (Well, at least they have to share their changes with us :)) Only if they distribute the control systems :> >Seriously, slander is slander, and it's rude, and people will know it when >th

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Avery Pennarun
On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 07:48:00PM -0600, Stephen Crowley wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 04:21:37PM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > > Debian is a free project to distribute a free OS. It should have a free > > logo. FREE THE LOGO!! FREE THE LOGO!! :-) > > And what if some anti-debian people ge

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread James LewisMoss
> On Sun, 24 Jan 1999 00:52:12 +0100, Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: Wichert> [1 ] For the Nth Wichert> time our logo license has expired. It might be a good idea Wichert> to finally finalize the license instead of just extending Wichert> its lifetime every couple of mon

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Andrew G . Feinberg
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 02:55:56AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Agreed. Shall we move the logo license discussion to debian-legal and > rewrite it there? Explain: Why in the world do we need to license something as trivial as a _logo_? I havent been a developer for a long time, but it

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 02:54:14AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > * It is a penguin (even if some think it's a chicken). A penguin is already > > the Linux logo, are we only capable of plagiarism, or are we up to the > > task > > and have an identi

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Darren Benham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 24-Jan-99 Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Darren Benham wrote: >> The current license? Are you sure? It needs to be rewritten if for no >> other >> reason but to remove the expiration date. > > Okay, so I should have read the license before posting th

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > * It is a penguin (even if some think it's a chicken). A penguin is already > the Linux logo, are we only capable of plagiarism, or are we up to the task > and have an identity of our own? Heh, nobody seems to be able to spot that :) > * A penguin is submi

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Chris Waters wrote: > Debian is a free project to distribute a free OS. It should have a free > logo. FREE THE LOGO!! FREE THE LOGO!! :-) Agreed. Shall we move the logo license discussion to debian-legal and rewrite it there? Wichert. -- ==

RE: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Ed Boraas
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Darren Benham wrote: > >On 23-Jan-99 Wichert Akkerman wrote: >> I propose that we vote on accepting both the logo and the current >> license. >> > >The current license? Are you sure? It needs to be rewritten if for no other >reason but to remove the expiration date. Note t

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Ed Boraas
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Chris Waters wrote: >Wichert Akkerman wrote: > >> I propose that we vote on accepting both the logo and the current >> license. > >I very much dislike the current license. I'm a debian developer, I'd >like to put the debian logo on my home page, but I do *not* necessarily >wa

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Stephen Crowley
On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 04:21:37PM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > Debian is a free project to distribute a free OS. It should have a free > logo. FREE THE LOGO!! FREE THE LOGO!! :-) And what if some anti-debian people get ahold of the logo and use it for evil purposes? -- Stephen Crowley

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Ed Boraas
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: >I propose that we vote on accepting both the logo and the current >license. I think this is a good idea. If this proposal needs to be seconded, consider this my "seconded!". If it needs to be seconded somewhere else (debian-vote?) i'll do so there :)

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Darren Benham wrote: > The current license? Are you sure? It needs to be rewritten if for no other > reason but to remove the expiration date. Okay, so I should have read the license before posting that :). Should we change anything besides removing the expiration date? So far nobody

RE: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Darren Benham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 23-Jan-99 Wichert Akkerman wrote: > I propose that we vote on accepting both the logo and the current > license. > The current license? Are you sure? It needs to be rewritten if for no other reason but to remove the expiration date.

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Chris Waters
Wichert Akkerman wrote: > I propose that we vote on accepting both the logo and the current > license. I very much dislike the current license. I'm a debian developer, I'd like to put the debian logo on my home page, but I do *not* necessarily want to devote half or more of my home page to debia

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 12:52:12AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > There has also been mention of people wanting a different logo. I think > we should stick to our current logo for several reasons though: > > * it is a good logo: it's easily recognizable, simple to draw, scales > good and

Re: Debian logo

1998-10-10 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hello, On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 11:59:31PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > > Ideally, we need a version of the logo that can be reproduced in one > > or two colors. That way it can go directly on a CD or be printed > > inexpensively. Full-color printing can be rather expensive. > > And it should s

Re: Debian logo

1998-10-10 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 12:25:07PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > > > I would prefer a new logo, too. We shouldn't draw it. > > > We should run a gimp contest. They produced the Gnome logo, and th

Re: Debian logo

1998-10-10 Thread Chris Waters
> Ideally, we need a version of the logo that can be reproduced in one > or two colors. That way it can go directly on a CD or be printed > inexpensively. Full-color printing can be rather expensive. And it should scale well, from fairly large to quite small. This means lines and *simple* curve

Re: Debian logo

1998-10-10 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 02:43:05AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > I would prefer a new logo, too. We shouldn't draw it. > We should run a gimp contest. They produced the Gnome logo, and there are > artists as well as designer. They'll come up with a good, inspiring logo, > I'm sure. We should vot

Re: Debian logo

1998-10-10 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 12:25:07PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > I would prefer a new logo, too. We shouldn't draw it. > > We should run a gimp contest. They produced the Gnome logo, and there are > > artists as well as designer. They'll come up

Re: Debian logo

1998-10-10 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 03:58:58PM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: > > > > I'd prefer a new logo as well (with no offense intended toward the kind > > person who created the current one!) > > I would prefer a new logo, too. We shouldn't draw it. > We shoul

Re: Debian logo license still not resolved

1998-01-11 Thread Richard Roberto
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > How about: > * We require that people acknowledge the use of our trademark, > quoting `Debian penguin logo automatic licence version 1' and the date. > * The licence gives permission only for the year following the date > quoted. > > Then if we want to cha

Re: Debian logo license still not resolved

1998-01-09 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Ian Jackson wrote: > > There are a number of unresolved questions: > * Do we want a separate logo and licence for `powered by Debian' ? Considering the time it has taken to come to closure on the first one, I would not recommend it. 'Powered by Debian' or any other marketing

Re: Debian logo license still not resolved

1998-01-09 Thread Will Lowe
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Ian Jackson wrote: > Then if we want to change the licence we publish version 2 instead, > leaving version 1 available but stating that it is no longer > available. Users of the logo have to go and check each year that the These last two sentences are a little wacky. You mean