Re: Git Logo

From: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date: Aug 3, 2009, 17:19 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0908031807430.17866@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <m3d47criu5.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> David Soria Parra <sn_@gmx.net> writes:
>> On 2009-08-03, Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> Who owns the copyright to the Git logo as seen here?
>>>
>>> http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/FrontPage?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=git-logo.png
>>

[ - snip discussion of git repo history - ]

>> From examining file with 'identify -verbose' from ImageMagick you can
> see
>  Version: ImageMagick 6.2.2 05/24/06 Q16
> (I guess that mean 24 June 2005, not 24 May 2006).

Er ... isn't that just the version of ImageMagick you are using? (i.e. the same as the output of 'identify -version')

> That doesn't help (much) to get to know who is the author of
> git_logo.png, and what license it is under.  I expect it to be GPLv2
> (or GPLv2 or later) licensed, like the rest of Git.

The majority of the early commits to gitweb don't include any comments, but I did find an early post from Kay to the mailing list lurking buried down there in my mail folder:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/1075

I guess that the logo referred to is the same one ...

-- 
Julian

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