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Re: Debian GNU/Linux Logo chosen

From: Paul J Thompson <thomppj@thomppj.student.okstate.edu>
> I must have missed something, because I am sure that the Debian Logo is not 
> something which would be decided without calling some kind of vote of the 
> Debian Developers, etc.

We had a contest with votes. The contest went on for an awful long time,
(someone said two years???). The most popular logo in the contest was not
one that we could trademark, and it was very similar to logos used by
similar products. We could not have used it for that reason.
Meanwhile, I had gotten a commercial artist to draw the Open Hardware
logo from a concept that I designed, and that worked out very well.
The person who was running the contest and I discussed hiring a commercial
artist for the Debian logo as well. Some time went by and a lot of people
got after me to get the logo done. I was about to hire the aritst (for $$$)
and I took another look at the logo submissions to see if one could be used.
That one could.

The logo chosen emphasizes the Linux connection (it has a penguin), but
it is different enough from "Tux" that we can trademark it, and it has
artistic merit.

	Thanks

	Bruce


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