[Nouveau] Logo Nouveau

[Martin Peres]

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!

Martin
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