Stefan Heymann wrote:

>>> Lester Caine wrote:
>>>> The problem is not so much the license, but the fact that there is an
>>>> agreed logo for Firebird. People should be using the official logo's
>>>> such as from the gloat page
>>>> http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=ffoundation&id=gloat_logos
>>>> rather than creating new ones that have not been approved :(
>
> Lester, the logos that Zaher created look great. They resemble the
> modern style that Open Source software like Firefix or Thunderbird
> uses.

I hate this obsession with having to keep changing things - we have a
Logo that was a lot of work to get agreement on - why do we want to
change it. Zaher's logo's are similar to one's rejected when we did have
the exercise ...

> So what's the official path for approval? And where are the official
> Firebird logos? The gloat logos are, well, just gloat logos.

Probably through the Foundation?
But I'll object to yet another logo ;)

> I created this page because I needed a "correct" logo for my software
> and I didn't find it. I managed to get a CDR file from someone and
> converted that to the various formats. The Firebird Project is of
> course free to use them (and any other Firebird related material on my
> website) and/or publish them on the Firebird website.

Not sure where you got it, but the reference data is here
http://home.lsces.co.uk/firebird/Firebird_Logo_Details.html
This was the work done for the tee shirts and other merchandise.

> BTW, Zaher is correct in that the logo that appears on the Windows
> installer is ugly, because it has been rendered without any
> antialiasing. This is the first impression a newbie gets from Firebird
> and IMHO it's not a good one.

I'll agree on that also that the Foundation own logo's are wrong
http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=ffoundation&id=support_logos the
break on the left is an integral part of the logo as shown on the top of
the page!
http://home.lsces.co.uk/firebird/logo/ was the correct logo.

So can we at least agree on a logo and make that the standard
everywhere. Personally I would want to see a very good argument for
changing from the already adopted one, and I'd like to see it properly
documented and USE consistently!

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