Created with Free Software! A button to spread the word 2010-03-18
Last month I did a presentation on the concept of redundancy in a human factor related seminar at university. As most participants were non-IT people and using Windows I felt like promoting Free Software without making it “too loud”.
So I came up with the idea of putting a rubber stamp “Created with Free Software” onto the front slide. I found an Inkscape tutorial on rubber stamps to get me started.
This is the result:
On the the front slide:
To get the stamp appear at that very place can be a little tricky. Feel free to inspect the slide sources, particularly redundanz.tex.
By now there is optimized PNGs
- in 4 colors (original/red, gray, white and black)
- in 4 sizes (88×28/59, 120×38/81, 180×57/121 and 300×95/201)
- rotated or not (0° and 25° counter-clockwise)
and SVGs respectively. In case you need PDFs: Inkscape converts well on the commandline:
inkscape --export-pdf=out.pdf in.svg
To see them all please visit the “Created with Free Software” page of the FSFE. Please make use of this stamp whereever you see fits. If you have photos or screenshots of the button in action please comment here.
Please join promoting Free Software!
[EDIT]: The button sources (SVG) are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license (unlike this blog post itself, see box below). The PNG versions are licensed even more liberally under the Creative Commons Zero 1.0 Universal license. The idea is to keep derivatives “in the pool” while allowing to use the PNGs without even attribution.
This work, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 Germany License.
I like this, but explain the difference between Free as in beer, and free as in freedom is a bit bothersome; perhaps a stamp with : Made with OpenSource?
I think I will integrate this nice work in some documents I will create next time.
@Saleel
I want to say what I think and so I say “Free Software”. I am talking about Freedom, Anarchism, Community (and maybe Nerdiness) etc., not about “OpenSource”.
latex is also capable to rotate images.
Saleel, there, you did it, you explained the difference between Free and gratis in a small sentence, now try explaining the other 9 points of the OSD with fewer words. Open Source is misleading because it narrows your thinking on one aspect, rather than broadening it to all relevant matters.
Sebastian, great stuff, thanks for the virtual sticker.
Thank you for this work!
Can you precise the licence of the button, because people are confusing it with the licence of the blog post (which is CC BY ND) ?
Thanks
A button for free software that is not free? :/
I’m too impatient to figure out what all these CC license versions mean. I’ll create my own button…
You promote free software, but you use a non-free CC license for your slides?
Only CC-BY and CC-BY-SA are free licenses. The other variants violate various essential freedoms:
NC violates freedom 0 (use of the slides for any purpose)
ND violates freedom 1 and freedom 3
Don’t get me wrong: using a CC license is better than nothing. But if you are serious about free software, why aren’t you serious about free CC licenses, too?
Here you have 2 traslations:
catalan: Creat amb programari lliure.
Spanish: Creado con software libre.
If you made it in that languages, ill use it.
“The idea is to keep derivatives “in the pool” while allowing to use the PNGs without even attribution.”
I don’t think the idea will work if someone wants it not to. Someone can just create a new SVG based on the PNG and Bob’s your uncle.
drew
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Thanks, I am gonna use it, very helpful!