[Nouveau] Logo Nouveau

[Chris]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:55:59 +0100 Martin Peres <martin.peres at 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