Create a project site

[vitcpp]

The domain pgsphere.org is proposed to be the primary project place. A simple site with some description and documentation should be implemented.

• The site should be changeable by the community using github (think how to utilise GitHub Pages)
• The pgsphere.github.io site might be used as the initial version (with some corrections)
• Decide whether to put the site contents into the same repo or into another one

Any comments, proposals, requirements are welcome!

[vitcpp]

Dear Sirs,

There is the pgsphere logo at http://pgsphere.github.io/img/pg_sphere.png. I may ask designers to improve it but I have no idea how to mitigate the risks of possible copyright conflicts. If you have some idea who is the owner of the logo or how to avoid possible copyright conflicts, please, share. I would appreciate it . Thank you.

[df7cb]

I am not the creator of that logo, and I have no idea who created it, but I would say it was clearly created for "the" pgsphere project, independent from where that project happens to be hosted.

To me it seems ok to use the logo on pgsphere.org and whatever github repo/organization that hosts the code.

@msdemlei ?

[esabol]

The logo could use some improvement, but I very much like the premise of an elephant sitting on a sphere.

Copyright only applies to a specific image. Trademark applies to all images that depict an elephant on a sphere, for example. I rather doubt anything has been trademarked. (I am not a lawyer, but that's my understanding.)

The image probably goes back to the original repository owned by akorotkov ?

[df7cb]

Oh right, I had assumed the logo would be new in pgsphere.github.io, but it's already present as a .png in https://github.com/postgrespro/pgsphere/tree/master/doc/img . (Haven't checked the .xcf file there, but I'd assume it matches.)

So the logo is properly part of pgsphere, and if it doesn't carry any extra (C) notices, it's ok to assume the terms from COPYRIGHT.pg_sphere.

[vitcpp]

Thank you very much for your comments! Once, it is a part of the project, we can change it under the same terms. It is a reasonable argument.

[msdemlei]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 08:58:18AM -0700, Ed Sabol wrote:

The image probably goes back to the original repository owned by akorotkov ?

I'm pretty sure it's much older. I've hence just asked Igor Chilingarian about it, and he doesn't remember either. I'd hence say it's fine if we just claim it for the project; whoever the original author is pretty certainly has lost interest in it.

[esabol]

I'd just redo it anyway. It's low-res and pixel-y. One of the LLM AI tools to generate art could whip up an elephant sitting on a sphere easily, I bet.

[obartunov]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 6:44 PM msdemlei @.***> wrote:

On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 08:58:18AM -0700, Ed Sabol wrote:

The image probably goes back to the original repository owned by akorotkov ?

I'm pretty sure it's much older. I've hence just asked Igor Chilingarian about it, and he doesn't remember either. I'd hence say it's fine if we just claim it for the project; whoever the original author is pretty certainly has lost interest in it.

It's made by Yanko. I suggest to create a new logo keeping compatibility with old one.

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[vitcpp]

I'd just redo it anyway. It's low-res and pixel-y. One of the LLM AI tools to generate art could whip up an elephant sitting on a sphere easily, I bet.

I'm not sure, who owns the copyright when using such AI tools :)