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It's not my intention to be sassy, it's just that IP issues aren't simple, and design assets in particular in the context of software development has historically been a complicated thing. (Although we released the Liberation fonts a bit before that) They acted in a similarly responsible way when we commissioned and released (and continue to update) the OFL licensed Overpass font, which coincidentally or not was just starting as a process back when this thread started.
#Redhat linux logo license#
The brand design team that created them is trying to do this right and have them released under a Creative Commons license, which I applaud, and which won't encumber users of the icons in the same way a more vague, restrictive (and typical) license would have. It's not just that they are a simple set of icons, they reflect the style and brand standards of Red Hat as a company and the trust we've built up over the years, so they fall into a bit of a gray area, particularly given historical attitudes in our community around such assets (remember Iceweasel, anyone?) I am guessing that we probably could have released them under a restrictive license that would force users to either violate the license or have legalese on their diagrams/slide decks that used them - I don't think that's a good idea. I'm not super embarrassed, given this history, that this library of in-house designed and created icon assets that are closely tied to Red Hat's corporate brand has involved several layers of OKs and approvals before we could release them to you. That was in 2006 and here we are over 10 years later still doing it. We were one of the first open source communities to do that. We opened up the brand guidelines and styling for Fedora.
I remember being told that open development and even open licensing was "for kernel developers, not designers." Not too long after that we started the Fedora Design Team and started creating Fedora's art assets out in the open with the community following a public process using open licenses, using open source tools. So when I started at Red Hat as a UX designer back in 2004, the general attitude the open source community had towards design assets and design in general is that it couldn't be done in the open.
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If you haven't heard from me in a while (I don't log in here often) please feel free to contact me at duffy at redhat dot com.
#Redhat linux logo install#
To install you just drop the *.svg files for each library into the 'symbols' dir under ~/.config/inkscape/symbols (or wherever the inkscape config dir might live on your platform of choice.) You may find those libraries useful. I understand if you'd rather not switch tools, but in case that is a possibility for you - xaviju, an Inkscape development community member, has put together a github repo of multiple symbol sets for Inkscape including the icons from FontAwesome and Google Material Icons: I use Linux as my platform so I'm not able to run Visio and create stencils for it however I do use Inkscape and as of late Inkscape has a 'symbol library' feature where you can load in icon sets and drag them on canvas which is very helpful for diagramming. I will follow up with you when I hear back. I'm not sure, because I think they are considered Red Hat brand assets and not openly licensed, so it may not be possible to release the sources publicly. I just emailed the design lead for the iconset used in the diagram you linked to () to ask her about whether or not we can make those sources available for diagramming. I'm a UX designer with the Fedora engineering team and the maintainer of Bluecurve (the dated icons already mentioned.) Bluecurve and its sources are available via git here: