Not that I have any idea what Brad's feelings are on his logo it should
be pointed out theres a difference between childish intellectual
property paradigms and branding consistency; if rules are put into
place the latter should never be confused with an individuals behavior
having childish tendencies and instead someone who is concerned that
one person's subtle changes do not necessarily equate to another's and
as such allowing a broad creative license in these matters can cause a
TON of problems especially when somebody somewhere along the way
decides that they just dont like this or that or whatever else, start
from scratch, and begin using this new logo with the idea that this is
part of the creative right's given to them as part of the "license".<br>
<br>
Not that I am trying to create comotion or suggest your ideas have no
merit. They do for sure and I agree that changing the base color
scheme can be really helpful when it comes to site color coordination,
etc.. But it seems that there should then be a series of color
schemes submitted by whomever has interest, changing nothing else, of
which Brad and those in whom he chooses to help in the decision process
can select those in which they feel agree with the "spirit" of the
original logo design and call them official with the requirement that
you can select any of the approved graphics to help match your site
design but please leave things as is. If you think a new design
is important then create one and submit it to Brad for
consideration. Again, not that I know Brad or any of these guys
beyond watching them develop this project at a pace I have NEVER
witnessed before now. So please don't take what I am suggesting
and attach it to them. But this is an area I do have a
considerable amount of professional experience in so I felt it was
worth at least expressing my professional opinions in this area to be
dealt with as the project developers see fit.<br>
<br>
Cheers :)<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/29/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dro Kulix</b> <<a href="mailto:dro@drocore.com">dro@drocore.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Since the (sparse!) FAQ [ <a href="http://www.lifewiki.net/openid/OpenIDFAQ">http://www.lifewiki.net/openid/OpenIDFAQ</a> ] and<br>the mailing list archives (as far as I could tell) make no mention of<br>this, I'm wondering some things about the OpenID logo.
<br><br>* Who owns the logo?<br>* What are the terms of use of the logo?<br>* Would it be reasonably legitimate to make subtle changes to the logo<br>(for example, to change the color of the "I" pillar from orange to blue or
<br>to alter the color of the background or make it transparent)?<br>* Is there already a publicly available SVG/EPS/print-resolution pixmap<br>version of the logo to use? (That's just out of curiosity--I'm handy with<br>
CorelDraw and the logo would be trivial to duplicate.)<br><br>I know that this project isn't rooted in childish intellectual property<br>paradigms; this is just something that probably ought to be explicitly<br>specified.
<br><br>Please leave a URI with your RTFM. :-)<br><br>Thanks -- PSM<br><br></blockquote></div><br><br><br>-- <br><M:D/><br><br>M. David Peterson<br>[ <a href="http://www.xsltblog.com/">http://www.xsltblog.com/</a> ][
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