Re: logo permission

On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 7:11 PM MG wrote: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_star > As I said, the essential element here is the "red" and definitely not the "star". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_States Hence, we remain puzzled why you'r

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More broadly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_symbolism From Germany's more recent history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction Later design of the RAF's insignia showing a red star and a Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine gun On 21/05/2020 03:54, Jim White wrote: On Wed, May 2

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_star "A red star, five-pointed and filled (★), is an important symbol that has often historically been associated with communist ideology, particularly in combination with the hammer and sickle, but is also used as a purely socialist symbol in the 21st century

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Also a possible association, especially if you are coming from California, though certainly much less widely known... On 21/05/2020 03:59, OCsite wrote: Indeed! https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:California_Lone_Star_Flag_1836.svg :) On 21 May 2020, at 3:54, Jim White

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Indeed! https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:California_Lone_Star_Flag_1836.svg :) > On 21 May 2020, at 3:54, Jim White wrote: > > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 6:49 PM MG > wrote: > NEVER ?

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On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 6:49 PM MG wrote: > NEVER ? Not even a little ? Come on... > > Socialist/communist red star: > > > You're trolling us, right? The only thing "Communist" about that is the red. The figure is purely a filled pentagram. Great to see OpenOffice getting renewed support for G

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NEVER ? Not even a little ? Come on... Socialist/communist red star: Scale horizontally: Change fill color, add black outline: Add font-of-choice groovy text: That's why I jokingly call it the communist logo. I personally agree with the recent critique towards the logo

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I have NEVER considered the Groovy logo to look like the communist star. As a matter of fact, I find the Groovy Star logo easily recognizable, and in the given case, I like it over the circled G. Best regards / Med venlig hilsen, Søren Berg Glasius Hedevej 1, Gl. Rye, 8680 Ry, Denmark Mobile: +45

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I have added a comment suggesting considering using the Groovy "icon"/Jira logo instead of the communist star one (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_star) G-) Cheers, mg On 20/05/2020 20:00, Carl Marcum wrote: I have attached the screenshots to this issue [1]. Please let me know if you have an

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I have attached the screenshots to this issue [1]. Please let me know if you have any questions. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-9564 On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 6:32 AM Carl Marcum wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Having trouble attaching the image to Jira for some reason so I'm > getting wi

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Hi Paul, Having trouble attaching the image to Jira for some reason so I'm getting with infra about it. I'll post back the issue when created. Thanks, Carl On 5/19/20 10:31 PM, Paul King wrote: Hi Carl, This sounds like the kind of use of the Groovy logo that we'd like to support. Can I a