Re: author of PostgreSQL logo

From: Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: obartunov(at)gmail(dot)com
Cc: PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: author of PostgreSQL logo
Date: 2016-04-20 20:52:25
Message-ID: CE8C6E6A-24DE-4983-9821-A81F764801ED@postgresql.org
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On 20 Apr 2016, at 21:32, Oleg Bartunov <obartunov(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:17 AM, Oleg Bartunov <obartunov(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:47 PM, Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
> On 19 Apr 2016, at 21:18, Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
> > On 19 Apr 2016, at 20:00, Oleg Bartunov <obartunov(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >> I found on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pg_logo.png, that
> >> author is Jeff MacDonald, but actually, it was Daniel Lundin, who used logo by Dmitry Samersoff (slonik.gif, elephant in diamond) and made logo for postgresql.inc. Jeff made 'powered by" with Daniel's elphant. I specially checked archives and wayback machine to refresh my memory.
> >> http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/obartunov/24248903/38652/38652_original.png
> >>
> >> Should we bother about this ?
> >
> > Probably a good idea to get that fixed. It shouldn't take huge effort, if you
> > can find someone with permissions to make the change. :)
>
> This seems to be the blog for the correct Daniel Lundin too, if you want
> to ping him first to confirm. :)
>
> http://www.eintr.org
>
> It has email, twitter, GitHub info on there for him.
>
> Will ask.
>
> Daniel confirm, that he is author of this logo and that he used "elephant in diamond" by Dmitry Samersoff, so I edited information on wikipedia and corrected several broken links to pgfoundry.
[snip]

Looking here, it's still saying "Jeff MacDonald":

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pg_logo.png

Should that still be the case? :)

+ Justin

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