[webkit-dev] WebKit Icon license?

Maciej Stachowiak mjs at apple.com
Tue Mar 23 21:05:47 PDT 2010


On Mar 23, 2010, at 9:00 PM, Shinichiro Hamaji wrote:

> A related P1 issue :) http://webkit.org/b/19371

Want. Where can I obtain that shirt?

  - Maciej

>
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com>  
> wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 23, 2010, at 3:25 AM, Jeremy Orlow wrote:
>>
>> It seems as though we should at very least change the main icon on
>> webkit.org to match what is apparently the official webkit logo.   
>> The icons
>> for the Mac and Windows nightlies probably needn't change since  
>> they're run
>> within Safari anyway, but probably the nightly source icon should  
>> change.
>>  Anyone disagree?
>>
>> There is no official WebKit logo, so I wouldn't make changes based  
>> on that
>> assumption. What we have is artwork that has been used on various
>> WebKit-related sites. It's certainly a change worth considering to  
>> create
>> and consistently deploy an official WebKit logo. A design contest  
>> might be a
>> good way to go with that, and perhaps it's something we could  
>> discuss at the
>> contributor meeting. But I would suggest not messing with the  
>> visual design
>> of the site in the meantime.
>> Even if we did have an official WebKit logo, it might still make  
>> sense to
>> have an icon on nightly.webkit.org that matches the icon of the  
>> nightly
>> launcher, rather than one that matches the WebKit logo. That's  
>> assuming we
>> don't add any nightly launchers with a different icon (which would
>> presumably occur if we had any that launched a browser other than  
>> Safari).
>> Regards,
>> Maciej
>>
>>
>> I'll spin up a patch later this week.
>> J
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Eric Seidel <eric at webkit.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> So it would appear then that www.webkit.org and nightly.webkit.org  
>>> are
>>> the odd men out. :)
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Sam Weinig  
>>> <sam.weinig at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> And our own http://planet.webkit.org/.
>>>> -Sam
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Chris Jerdonek <cjerdonek at webkit.org 
>>>> >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Eric Seidel <eric at webkit.org>  
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Interesting.  Looks like the WebKit icon on CIA is different from
>>>>>> webkit.org.  I could have sworn they used to be the same:
>>>>>> http://cia.vc/stats/project/webkit
>>>>>
>>>>> That's also the icon used for the WebKit group on LinkedIn:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=91394
>>>>>
>>>>> [Resent from correct address.]
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -eric
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Kenneth Christiansen
>>>>>> <kenneth.christiansen at openbossa.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> Contest is fine :-) That is how our designers created the Maemo
>>>>>>> logo:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://wiki.maemo.org/Task:maemo.org_logo_contest
>>>>>>> http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo.org_logo_contest_submissions
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm cc'ing Marcelo, who is our Brazilian Head of User  
>>>>>>> Experience and
>>>>>>> Design.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>> Kenneth
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Dimitri Glazkov
>>>>>>> <dglazkov at chromium.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>> I just reached out to the Russian icon powerhouse, Turbomilk
>>>>>>>> (turbomilk.com), and they're interested in pitching in as well.
>>>>>>>> Maybe
>>>>>>>> we should have a contest?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> :DG<
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Kenneth Christiansen
>>>>>>>> <kenneth.christiansen at openbossa.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> I have asked our designers to look into it :-)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Kenneth
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Jeremy Orlow
>>>>>>>>> <jorlow at chromium.org>
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Darin Adler  
>>>>>>>>>> <darin at apple.com>
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Mar 19, 2010, at 8:40 AM, Dimitri Glazkov wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Would you happen to know how WebKit icon is licensed?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> The icon currently on webkit.org has the icon for Apple’s  
>>>>>>>>>>> Safari
>>>>>>>>>>> web
>>>>>>>>>>> browser in it. Because of that, Apple has provided no  
>>>>>>>>>>> license to
>>>>>>>>>>> use the
>>>>>>>>>>> icon; we are continuing to use it with informal permission  
>>>>>>>>>>> from
>>>>>>>>>>> Apple.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Given that WebKit has been more than just the rendering  
>>>>>>>>>> engine
>>>>>>>>>> Safari uses
>>>>>>>>>> for quite some time now, I wonder if it'd be worth trying  
>>>>>>>>>> to come
>>>>>>>>>> up
>>>>>>>>>> with
>>>>>>>>>> something unique for the project.  One benefit would be  
>>>>>>>>>> that it
>>>>>>>>>> could be
>>>>>>>>>> used more freely.
>>>>>>>>>> Anyone with graphic design skillz going to the WebKit  
>>>>>>>>>> meeting?
>>>>>>>>>>  :-)
>>>>>>>>>> J
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>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>> Kenneth Rohde Christiansen
>>>>>>>>> Technical Lead / Senior Software Engineer
>>>>>>>>> Qt Labs Americas, Nokia Technology Institute, INdT
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>> Kenneth Rohde Christiansen
>>>>>>> Technical Lead / Senior Software Engineer
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