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Logo for NixOS 24.05 Uakari #128

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wegank opened this issue Apr 13, 2024 · 5 comments
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Logo for NixOS 24.05 Uakari #128

wegank opened this issue Apr 13, 2024 · 5 comments
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@wegank
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wegank commented Apr 13, 2024

Hi, we are Weijia Wang & Jonathan Ringer, the release managers for NixOS 24.05 ("Uakari").

The next NixOS release is planned for the end of May 2024, you can see the full schedule NixOS/nixpkgs#303285.

The animal for this release is a uakari.

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Also cc @mogorman, schedule allowing.

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riotbib commented Apr 14, 2024

Hej @wegank, thanks for the highlight!

Sadly there is no Uakari in Berlin's zoos. Thus I cannot take a picture this time, as I did with the 23.11 Release.

But I did find this picture of a lovely Uakari, that is public domain. I'll draft up a logo soon-ish and make a PR.

For anyone reading this, not beeing in-the-loop: IMHO it should be best practice for NixOS Release logos to only use public domain pictures, because they spread widely. Even Creative Commons licenses demand that the creator (and even the license itself) is mentioned at all uses.

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This https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Male_uakari.jpg is also under public domain, and the distinctive red face is a bit more visible.

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riotbib commented Apr 14, 2024

Thanks!

Evgenia Kononova grants anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

IANAL, but at least for German Urheberrechtsgesetz you cannot declare something as "public domain" and it's public domain suddenly and immediately. It's calculated by the age of the artwork (70 years im most cases). This is not the case here.

Furthermore the one creating the breach of law (not NixOS foundation, but the one creating the logo) is actionable. I would not feel comfortable with that holding the German passport.

riotbib added a commit to riotbib/nixos-artwork that referenced this issue Apr 16, 2024
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Add 24.05 Uakari artwork
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As discussed in Issue NixOS#128 I hereby submit an idea for a logo of NixOS
24.05, named "Uakari". I used a public domain image of this lovely
animal, please refer to the issue for more insight into legal concerns
regaring usage of images.

I rotated the image a bit, edited saturation and shadows and cropped out
grey, noisy background. I think it looks good on a white background now,
not so great on a black (think darkmode) background. This needs further
improvement…

I gladly give out the `.xcf` and `.svg` files, but usually Github
prohibits upload of such files. Just comment here and I'll send you a
link.

Happy to hear feedback by the community!

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wegank commented May 2, 2024

Done in #129.

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