[Ffmpeg-devel] FFmpeg naming and logo (original) (raw)

Diego Biurrun diego
Thu Feb 16 11:28:54 CET 2006

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:25:58PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:

Use of and dependence on non-free software is not acceptable, and it's utterly hypocritical to design your logo in a nonfree data format with nonfree software.

There's a tradeoff to be made here unfortunately. Most designers use non-free tools for their job. When you get them to volunteer time and skill to create a logo for your project, you cannot necessarily expect them to switch tools just for you, there's a limit on the effort you can ask for.

For example, the sources of the MPlayer logo are a set of Adobe Illustrator files. This is less than perfect, but I doubt good free vector drawing programs even existed back when it was created...

And yes, it's a problem. Converting such sources to open formats is desirable, but not always possible. Should that be the case, you may have to make a tough choice between no logo or a logo in an opaque format...

Diego

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